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Stinkwood

Zieria arborescens

Stinkwood
Photo: Geoff Derrin, CC BY-SA 4.0
Family
Rutaceae (Citrus family)
Grows as
Tree, Shrub
Native range
SE. Queensland to Tasmania
Climate
subtropical

About

Zieria arborescens, commonly known as the tree zieria or stinkwood, is a plant in the citrus family Rutaceae and is endemic to eastern Australia. It is a bushy shrub or small tree with branches that are ridged and scaly or hairy, at least when young. It has leaves composed of three leaflets and groups of flowers with four white petals, the groups usually shorter than the leaves.

Where it grows

Tree zieria occurs in Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria and Tasmania, growing in wet forest and at the margins of rainforest. Subspecies glabrifolia only occurs on the New England Tablelands between the Girraween National Park in Queensland and Torrington in New South Wales. Subsp. decurrens is only recorded from near Jervis Bay where it grows in drier eucalyptus areas and features ridged non-warty branches and more hairs on the young branchlets.

Other Zieria plants

Zieria abscondita · Zieria actites · Zieria adenodonta · Zieria adenophora · Zieria alata · Zieria aspalathoides · Zieria baeuerlenii · Zieria bifida · Zieria boolbunda · Zieria buxijugum · Zieria caducibracteata · Zieria cephalophila

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Zieria arborescens by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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