Common name: Ingram's Zieria
Zieria ingramii J.A.Armstr. APNI* Synonyms: Zieria sp. E sensu Armstrong (1991) APNI*
Description: Slender spindly shrub to 0.6 m high; branches ridged, not warted, hirsute with simple hairs, older branches glabrescent.
Leaves with central leaflet linear to narrow-elliptic, 9–19 mm long, 1–3 mm wide, apex acute; margins revolute to midvein; ± concolorous, upper surface not warted but dotted with oil glands, generally glabrous with simple hairs along midvein furrow or some specimens with short appressed simple hairs; lower surface not warted, pubescent with long simple hairs; petiole 1.4–2 mm long.
Inflorescences variable, from twice as long as, to shorter than the leaves, mostly 7-flowered (range 3–13). Calyx lobes broad-triangular, c. 1.4 mm long, glabrous. Petals c. 3 mm long, imbricate, white to pale pink, outer surface pubescent, inner surface glabrous.
Cocci glabrous, slightly warted, often with a terminal appendage.
Flowering: spring.
Distribution and occurrence: Grows in dry sclerophyll forest on light sandy soils; rare, known only from Goonoo Goonoo S.F., near Dubbo.
NSW subdivisions: CWS
Threatened species: NSW BCA: Endangered; Commonwealth EPBC: Endangered
Text by J. A. Armstrong & G.J. Harden
Taxon concept: Flora of NSW 2 (1991)
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