Zieria eungellaensis
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| Zieria eungellaensis | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Rosids |
| Order: | Sapindales |
| Family: | Rutaceae |
| Genus: | Zieria |
| Species: | Z. eungellaensis |
| Binomial name | |
| Zieria eungellaensis | |
Zieria eungellaensis, commonly known as Eungella stink bush,[2] is a plant in the citrus family Rutaceae and is only found on a few isolated mountains in Queensland. It is a compact but open shrub with wiry branches, three-part leaves and flowers in small groups, each flower white or pink with four petals and four stamens, and is endemic to the Eungella National Park.
Zieria eungellaensis is a compact but open shrub which grows to a height of 2 m (7 ft) and has rough, wiry branches which are sometimes hairy. The leaves have a petiole 2–8 mm (0.08–0.3 in) long and a central leaflet which is elliptic to egg-shaped, 5–16 mm (0.2–0.6 in) long, 3–8 mm (0.1–0.3 in) wide with the other two leaflets slightly smaller. Only the midvein is distinct on the lower surface and unlike some other zierias, the leaf surface is not obviously warty.[3]
The flowers are white and are arranged singly or in groups of two or three in leaf axils on a slightly warty stalk 1–3 mm (0.04–0.1 in) long, the groups shorter than the leaves. The sepals are mostly glabrous, less than 1 mm (0.04 in) long and wide and the four petals are elliptic in shape, 2.5–3.5 mm (0.098–0.14 in) long, 1.2–1.5 mm (0.05–0.06 in) wide, varying between populations. The four stamens are about 1 mm (0.04 in) long. Flowering occurs between May and August and is followed by fruit which is a glabrous capsule, about 3 mm (0.1 in) long and 2 mm (0.08 in) wide.[3]
Taxonomy and naming
Zieria eungellaensis was first formally described in 2007 by Marco Duretto and Paul Irwin Forster from a specimen collected on Mount William in the Eungella National Park. The description was published in Austrobaileya.[4] The specific epithet (eungellaensis) is a reference to the range of this species in the Eungella National Park.[3]