Zieria montana J.A.Armstr.

Species

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Characteristics

Shrub to 4 m high. Branchlets ridged with prominent decurrent leaf bases, slightly glandular-verrucose, glabrous or with few hairs, later with conspicuous leaf scars. Leaves trifoliolate; petiole 10–20 mm long; central leaflet elliptic to obovate, 20–45 mm long, 10–17 mm wide, slightly crenulate, flat to recurved at margins, obtuse to rounded; adaxial surface not glandular-verrucose, glabrous except hairs on midrib; abaxial surface not glandular-verrucose, glabrous or with few hairs; secondary venation obscure. Inflorescences shorter than leaves, 10–20+-flowered (all or most opening at once). Sepals 0.7–1 mm long, slightly glandular-verrucose, with few hairs adaxially, pubescent or with few hairs at base abaxially. Petals imbricate, 4–4.5 mm long, creamy white, edged with pink, stellate-pubescent both sides. Filaments slightly glandular-verrucose apically. Cocci minutely apiculate, slightly glandular-verrucose, glabrous.
Life form perennial
Growth form shrub
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Mature height (meter) 4.0
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Environment

Grows in skeletal loamy soil on granophyre in mountain-top shrub communities. 
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Images

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Distribution

Zieria montana world distribution map, present in Australia

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:20006723-1
WFO ID wfo-0000429241
COL ID 5D4VF
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Synonyms

Zieria montana