Zieria cytisoides
Zieria cytisoides, commonly known as downy zieria, is a plant in the citrus family Rutaceae and is endemic to eastern Australia. It is a bushy shrub with three-part, clover-like leaves and small clusters of pale to deep pink flowers with four petals and four stamens.
Description
Zieria cytisoides is a bushy shrub which usually grows to a height of up to with its branches covered with velvety hairs. The leaves are composed of three leaflets with the central one elliptic to egg-shaped, long and wide and with a petiole long. The leaflets are flat, sometimes with their edges rolled under. They are dark green and covered with short, soft hairs on the upper surface and grey-green, covered with velvety hairs on the lower surface.Pale to deep pink, rarely white flowers are arranged in clusters of between 3 and 30 in leaf axils with a persistent bract at the base of the cluster. The clusters are about the same length as the leaves, but often longer or shorter. The sepals are triangular, about long and covered with soft hairs. The four petals are long, have a covering of soft hairs and do not overlap each other. There are four stamens. Flowers are present in winter and spring and are followed by velvety follicles containing black to reddish-brown seeds.