Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Zieria granulata
Common name
Illawarra Zieria, Hilly Zieria
Family
Rutaceae
Where found
Forest, woodland, and shrubland in rocky areas, moist slopes, and near streams. Kiama and Shellharbour districts.
Notes
Shrub to 6 m high. Stems warty with prominent yellow glands, and stellate hairy (needs a hand lens or a macro app on your phone/tablet to see) becoming more or less hairless. Leaves strongly aromatic when rubbed, opposite each other, compound, with 3 leaflets 1.5–5 cm long, 0.5–4 mm wide, tips blunt, margins toothed and rolled down; upper surface more or less warty, becoming hairless, and dull green; lower surface more or less warty and stellate-velvety, and whitish. Flowers white, with 4 petals each 1.7–2.5 mm long, and with 4 stamens. Flower clusters shorter than the leaves, 50–180 flowered. Flowering: spring to summer.
Endangered Australia. Endangered NSW. Provisions of the NSW Biodiversity Conservation Act 2016 No 63 relating to the protection of protected plants generally also apply to plants that are a threatened species.
NSW Threatened Species profile: http://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/threatenedSpeciesApp/profile.aspx?id=10856 (accessed 8 January 2021)
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Zieria~granulata (accessed 8 January 2021)
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