Family: Rutaceae
Plant: An erect open shrub up to 1.5m high with glandular branchlets and strong-smelling foliage when crushed or brushed against.
Flowers: White, 4-petalled, star-like flowers borne in axillary clusters.
Flowering: August-October.
Fruit: A small warty coccus, usually with a terminal appendage.
Leaves: Opposite, aromatic, trifoliolate leaves with thin, soft, recurved margins and lanceolate leaflets 2-5cm long and 4-7mm wide. The upper surface of the leaves is warty and dotted with oil glands.
Habitat: In sheltered locations in both wet- and dry-sclerophyll forests.
Features: Aromatic trifoliate leaves with a warty upper surface. Round stems. White 4-petalled flowers clustered in the leaf axils.
Name:
Zieria After the botanist Jan Zier.
smithii After the English botanist James Smith.
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Type |
Shrub |
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Flowers |
Form |
Regular, Cluster |
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Colour(s) |
White |
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Petal/Sepal No. |
4 |
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Flowering Month |
8, 9, 10 |
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Fruit |
Type |
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Colour |
Red, Brown, Green |
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Other Features |
- |
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Leaves |
Arrangement |
Opposite |
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Type |
Other |
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Shape |
Oval |
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Length |
Short |
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Margins |
Entire |
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Attachment |
Stalked |
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Other Features |
Aromatic,Oil dots/glands |
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Bark |
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- |
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Habitat |
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Wet sclerophyll forest, |
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Dry sclerophyll forest |