Zieria robusta
Maiden & BetcheErect shrub to c. 2.5 m high; younger branches distinctly ridged, glandular-verrucose, tomentose with simple hairs between the decurrent leaf-bases. Leaves mostly trifoliolate; terminal leaflet obovate, 2.5–11.5 mm long, 2–6.5 mm wide, apex rounded, emarginate or obcordate, mucronate, discolorous, dotted with oil glands, glabrous to glabrescent; lateral leaflets slightly smaller than terminal one; petiole 1.5–6 mm long. Inflorescence generally longer than the leaves, usually 5–9-flowered. Sepals broad-ovate or -triangular, 1–1.5 mm long, glandular-verrucose, silky; petals 2.5–3.5 mm long, white to pink, imbricate, pubescent; ovary glabrous. Follicles dotted with oil glands to slightly glandular-verrucose, appendage absent; seed 2.5–3 mm long, black, rugulose. Flowers summer.
HSF, HNF, VAlp. Also NSW. Rare in Victoria where known only from the Moroka River Gorge area and very localised, on dry ridge tops to rocky river banks, and in dry montane forest near Mt Typo in the north-east (from where collected once, in 1983).
The leaves of Victorian populations are more crenulate than those of New South Wales populations.
The Mt Typo population appears aberrant in at least some plants having flowers with 8 stamens.
Duretto, M.F. (1999). Rutaceae. In: Walsh, N.G.; Entwisle, T.J., Flora of Victoria Vol. 4, Cornaceae to Asteraceae, pp. 153–197. Inkata Press, Melbourne.
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