Common name: Murphy's Zieria
Zieria murphyi Blakely APNI* 
Description: Slender shrub, 1–2 m high; branches not warted, velvety, glabrescent.
Leaves dimorphic, 1-foliolate and 3-foliolate (population at Mt Tomah consistently 3-foliolate), with leaflets linear to oblong-lanceolate, 30–50 mm long, 3.5–10 mm wide, apex obtuse to acute, margins entire, ± flat; upper surface dark green, pubescent with predominantly simple hairs; lower surface grey-green, velvety with mainly stellate hairs; petiole 3–10 mm long.
Inflorescences shorter than leaves, 3–9-flowered. Calyx lobes ± triangular, 1.8–2.5 mm long, ± pubescent. Petals 4–5.5 mm long, imbricate, white to pale pink, ± pubescent.
Cocci not warted, pubescent, lacking an appendage.
Flowering: mainly spring.
Distribution and occurrence: Grows in dry sclerophyll forest in sandy soils; on the ranges from Mt Tomah to Penrose district.
NSW subdivisions: SC, CT
Threatened species: NSW BCA: Vulnerable; Commonwealth EPBC: Vulnerable
Text by J. A. Armstrong & G.J. Harden
Taxon concept: J.A. Armstrong (2002)
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