Rounded, dense shrub to 0.5 m high. Branchlets ± terete, sometimes with slight decurrent leaf bases, not glandular-verrucose, pubescent with stellate hairs and a few simple, bifid and trifid hairs. Leaves trifoliolate, not glandular-verrucose; petiole 0.5–1 mm long; central leaflet narrowly elliptic to narrowly oblanceolate, 5–10 mm long, 1–2.5 (–3) mm wide, commonly recurved to revolute at margins, sometimes flat, acute; adaxial surface sparsely pilose to pilose with simple and bifid hairs, sometimes only on midrib; abaxial surface moderately hairy with stellate and a few simple hairs, with midrib raised and secondary veins obscure. Inflorescences longer than leaves, usually 3-flowered. Sepals 1.5–2 mm long, slightly glandular-verrucose, with scattered simple and bifid appressed hairs adaxially, with few hairs or with dense stellate hairs abaxially. Petals valvate, 2.5–3 mm long, white to pale pink, with few hairs adaxially, stellate-tomentose abaxially. Filaments with few hairs, slightly glandular-verrucose at apex. Cocci smooth to slightly glandular-verrucose, glabrous or with scattered stellate hairs.

Flowers May–July; fruits c. June.

Native.

Endemic in NE Queensland, near Atherton and Ravenshoe. 

Grows in rocky (rhyolite) soil in tall heathy shrubland or eucalypt woodland.

Qld: near Mount Emerald, SW of Walkamin, A.R. Bean 13750 (BRI); State Forest Reserve 488, 2.5 km S of Ravenshoe, off Wooroora road, A.J. Ford 2808 et al. (BRI, MEL); State Forest 511, Bald Rock, near Ravenshoe, P.I. Forster 30695 & K.R. McDonald (BRI, HO); headwaters of Archer Creek, c. 5 km WNW of Ravenshoe, M. Lockyer 3 (NSW).

Clearly allied to Zieria aspalathoides but differs from that species in having a stellate indumentum on the stems, abaxial surface of the leaves and the abaxial surface of the sepals.

M.F. Duretto & P.I. Forster, Austrobaileya 7(3): 537, fig. 17 (2007).

Duretto, M.F. & Forster, P.I. (2007). A taxonomic revision of the genus Zieria Sm. (Rutaceae) in Queensland. Austrobaileya 7(3): 473–544.

George, A.S., Duretto, M.F. & Forster, P.I. (2013). Zieria, in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.), Flora of Australia 26: 282–336. (ABRS: Canberra/CSIRO Publishing: Melbourne).

A.S. George et al., Zieria, in A.J.G. Wilson (ed.), Flora of Australia 26: 282–336 (2013).