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Zieria distans

Family
Rutaceae (Citrus family)
Grows as
Shrub
Native range
ESE. Queensland
Climate
seasonally dry tropical

About

Zieria distans is a plant in the citrus family Rutaceae and is only found on a few isolated mountains in Queensland, Australia. It is a straggly shrub with wiry branches, warty, three-part leaves and clusters of up to about twenty small white flowers, each with four petals and four stamens, in the leaf axils.

Where it grows

This zieria grows in rocky places on mountain tops and ridges in woodland and shrubland in the South East Queensland biogeographic region. There are disjunct populations on the Walla Range, Coongara Rock, Kroombit Tops, Westwood Range and Mount Roberts.

Other Zieria plants

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

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Zieria distans 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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