Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Zieria parrisiae
Common name
Parris' zieria
Family
Rutaceae
Where found
Heath on the margins of dry forest in a rocky gully. West of Pambula.
Notes
Shrub to 4 m high. Stems cylindrical, glandular warty, stellate-hairy (needs a hand lens or a macro app on your phone/tablet to see), often with a reddish tinge; older stems hairless and not warty. Leaves aromatic when rubbed, opposite each other, compound, with 3 leaflets, the central leaflet 1.8–4.4 cm long, 1.5–5.5 mm wide, slightly longer than the lateral leaflets, tips pointed to blunt, margins more or less toothed, and curved down; upper surface warty, stellate-hairy, and dark green; lower surface warty, stellate-velvety, and paler. Flowers white, with 4 petals each about 4 mm long, and with 4 stamens. Flower clusters almost as long as the leaves, 9–33-flowered. Bracts surrounding the flower bud clusters 2–5 mm long, remaining after the flowers open. Flowering: winter-spring.
Critically Endangered Australia. Critically 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.
Sensitive Species list NSW.
NSW Threatened Species profile: http://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/threatenedSpeciesApp/profile.aspx?id=10862 (accessed 8 January 2021)
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Zieria~parrisiae (accessed 8 January 2021)
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