Zieria arborescens Sims

Species

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Characteristics

Shrub or tree to 10 m high. Branchlets slightly to distinctly ridged with decurrent leaf  bases, not glandular-verrucose, stellate-pubescent, rarely with few hairs. Leaves trifoliolate; petiole 8–40 mm long; central leaflet variable, narrowly elliptic, oblong, or lanceolate, (24–) 50–90 (–126) mm long, 4–22 mm wide, entire, shortly recurved at margins, acute; both surfaces not glandular-verrucose; adaxial surface with few hairs; abaxial surface tomentose to hirsute, or glabrous, with midrib not glandular-verrucose, secondary venation prominent. Inflorescences shorter than or rarely equal to leaves, usually 120–500-flowered; bracts 12–20 mm long, caducous. Sepals 1.3–2 mm long, rarely slightly glandular-verrucose, pubescent. Petals imbricate, 3–6.5 mm long, creamy white, gland-dotted abaxially, pubescent or hirsute adaxially. Filaments glandular-verrucose apically, dilated basally. Cocci apiculate, glabrous.
Life form perennial
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Growth support free-standing
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Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Photosynthetic pathway c3

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Occurs in wet forests.
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Hardiness (USDA) 8-12

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Images

Zieria arborescens unspecified picture

Distribution

Zieria arborescens world distribution map, present in Australia

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:776116-1
WFO ID wfo-0000429435
COL ID 7GFBW
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Synonyms

Zieria arborescens Boronia arborescens Zieria smithii var. tomentosa

Lower taxons

Zieria arborescens subsp. decurrens Zieria arborescens subsp. glabrifolia