Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Zieria littoralis

Flowers and leaves. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, Australian National Botanic Gardens, Canberra, ACT

Flowering branches. Photographer Don Wood, Green Cape Lighthouse south of Eden

Flowering branches. Photographer Don Wood, Eurobodalla Regional Botanic Gardens north of Moruya

Shrub. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, Australian National Botanic Gardens, Canberra, ACT

Common name

A Zieria

Family

Rutaceae

Where found

Heath and shrubland. Rocky headlands and coastal cliffs south from Moruya.

Notes

Shrub to 1 m high, sprawling to spreading. Stems velvety with stellate hairs (needs a hand lens or a macro app on your phone/tablet to see), becoming hairless. Leaves aromatic when rubbed, opposite each other, compound, with 3 leaflets 0.4–2 cm long, 1.3–9 mm wide, tips rounded, margins entire, and curved to rolled down, both surfaces warty and velvety with stellate hairs, upper surface dark green, lower surface grey green; secondary veins evident on both surfaces. Flowers white to pink, with 4 petals each 2–4.5 mm long, and 4 stamens. Flower clusters usually not longer than the leaves, 3–30-flowered. Flowers Winter to Summer.

Vulnerable Vic.

PlantNET description:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Zieria~littoralis  (accessed 12 February, 2021)