Zieria smithii Jacks.

Species

Angiosperms > Sapindales > Rutaceae > Zieria

Characteristics

Shrub to 2 m high, with lignotuber. Branchlets terete, smooth or rarely very slightly ridged, with leaf bases not decurrent, sometimes glandular-verrucose, pubescent or with few hairs, with stellate hairs or glabrous. Leaves trifoliolate; petiole 8–26 mm long; central leaflet narrowly elliptic, oblong or lanceolate, 22–70 mm long, 3–15 mm wide, entire, flat to recurved at margins, acute; both surfaces ±glandular-verrucose; adaxial surface glabrous or with a sparse indumentum of stellate and/or simple hairs; abaxial surface glabrous or pubescent to hirsute with scattered stellate hairs, with midrib glandular-verrucose, glabrous or with few hairs to pubescent; secondary venation prominent on abaxial surface. Inflorescences shorter than leaves, to 60-flowered; inflorescence bracts usually scale-like, 1–3 mm long. Sepals 0.8–1.5 mm long, glandular-verrucose, hirsute to glabrous. Petals imbricate, 2–4 mm long, creamy white, very rarely pale pink, glandular-verrucose and tomentose abaxially, sparsely hairy adaxially. Filaments glandular-verrucose apically. Cocci apiculate, glandular-verrucose, glabrous.
Life form perennial
Growth form shrub
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention evergreen
Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Mature height (meter) 1.8
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Photosynthetic pathway c3

Environment

Sandy forests or cleared areas near the coast, also in humid forest valleys to elevated mountain ravines.
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Widespread on the margins of closed forest or as an undershrub in eucalypt tall open forest. 
Light 7-9
Soil humidity 4-6
Soil texture 3-6
Soil acidity 3-7
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Hardiness (USDA) 8-12

Usage

Uses dye essential oil medicinal wood
Edible -
Therapeutic use -
Human toxicity -
Animal toxicity -

Cultivation

Can be grown by cuttings or seedlings.
Mode cuttings seedlings
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Images

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Distribution

Zieria smithii world distribution map, present in Australia

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:776146-1
WFO ID wfo-0000429264
COL ID 5D4VW
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID -
Wikipedia (EN) Link
Wikipedia (FR)

Synonyms

Zieria smithii Zieria trifoliata Zieria lanceolata Zieria smithii var. macrophylla Zieria smithii var. parviflora