Zieria exsul
Zieria exsul is a plant in the citrus family Rutaceae and is endemic to a small area of southeast Queensland. It is an open, straggly shrub with hairy branches, three-part leaves and white flowers in groups of up to twelve, the groups longer than the leaves and each flower with four petals and four stamens.
Description
Zieria exsul is an open, weak, straggly shrub which grows to a height of and has relatively smooth but hairy branches. The three-part leaves have a petiole long and a central leaflet which is egg-shaped, long, wide with the other two leaflets slightly smaller. The upper surface of the leaf is slightly hairy but the lower surface is densely hairy with woolly, star-shaped hairs.The flowers are white and are arranged singly or in groups of up to twelve in leaf axils on a mostly glabrous stalk long, the groups longer than the leaves. The sepals are more or less triangular, about long and wide and the four petals are elliptic in shape, about long and wide. The four stamens are less than long. Flowering occurs mostly occurs between August and September and is followed by fruit which is a glabrous capsule, about long and wide. This species is similar to Zieria compacta except that it is a more straggly shrub and has glabrous flower stalks.