Common name: Fragrant Zieria
Zieria odorifera J.A.Armstr. APNI* Synonyms: Zieria sp. P sensu Armstrong (1991) APNI*
Zieria odorifera J.A.Armstr. ms. (Crisp 3609) APNI*
Description: Shrub to 1 m high, odoriferous; branches ridged, hirsute between the ± glabrous leaf decurrencies, glabrescent.
Leaves with central leaflet obovate to elliptic, 5–7 mm long, 2–3 mm wide, apex obtuse to rounded; margins ± crenate; both surfaces glabrescent to hirsute with long simple hairs, upper surface deep green, dotted with oil glands (warted in specimens from Howell); lower surface lighter green; petiole 0.5–2 mm long.
Inflorescences generally longer than leaves, occasionally up to twice as long, mostly 3-flowered (range 1–7). Calyx lobes triangular, c. 2 mm long, glabrous but more usually hirsute. Petals c. 4.5 mm long, imbricate, pale to deep pink, pubescent, inner surface glabrescent.
Cocci hirsute, slightly warted, often with a terminal appendage.
Flowering: spring.
Distribution and occurrence: Grows in tall heath, on rocky ridges in shallow sandy soils amongst rock outcrops; in the Warrumbungle and Nandewar Ranges and at Howell.
NSW subdivisions: NT, NWS, CWS
Text by J. A. Armstrong & G.J. Harden
Taxon concept: Flora of NSW 2 (1991)
| | Key to the subspecies | |
| 1 | Petals glabrous or glabrescent on abaxial surface | subsp. copelandii |
| Petals densely hirsute on abaxial surface | 2 |
| 2 | Branches with an indumentum of mainly stellate hairs; sepals c. 1 mm long, glabrous or with a sparse indumentum of stellate hairs on the abaxial surface | subsp. warrabahensis |
| Branches pilose, with no or few stellate hairs; sepals 1–2 mm long, variously pilose on the abaxial surface though a few stellate hairs may also be present
Back to 1 | 3 |
| 3 | Petals 4–4.5 mm long [though smaller petals c. 3.5 mm long may rarely be also present]; leaflets usually oblanceolate with smooth or slightly glandular dentate margins | subsp. odorifera |
| Petals 2–2.5(–3.5) mm long; leaflets usually narrowly elliptic or narrowly oblanceolate with margins slightly to prominently glandular dentate
Back to 2 | subsp. williamsii |
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