Zieria nubicola H.K.Orel & Duretto APNI* 
Description: Tall shrub or small tree up to 3.5 m high; branchets sparsely to moderately-densely glandular-tuberculate, with a dense indumentum of white stellate hairs, hairs covering tubercles, without decurrent leaf-bases.
Leaves: petiole 5–12 mm long; lamina trifoliolate, leaflets similar though central leaflet longer; central leaflet linear to broadly linear, 23–53 mm long, 3–6 mm wide, apex rounded and blunt, margin entire, not appearing dentate, slightly recurved (becoming revolute on drying); upper surface deep green, glabrescent or having a sparse indumentum of stellate hairs, with scattered raised glandular tubercles, midvein sunken; lower surface whitish, with a dense velvety indumentum of stellate hairs, densely glandular tuberculate, tubercles also scattered along raised midvein, lateral veins also slightly raised.
Inflorescence shorter than the leaves, with (5–)15–50 flowers; peduncle 2–20 mm long, secondary branches 1–11 mm long; bracts 1 or 2 at each node of inflorescence, 0.5–5.0 mm long, persistent or deciduous; pedicels 1.0–3.1 mm long. Sepals 1.0–1.5 mm long, ovate to triangular shape; abaxial surface with a dense indumentum of stellate hairs; adaxial surface smooth and hirsute with simple hairs. Petals 4.0–4.5 mm long, white to light pink, valvate in bud; stellate-pubescent. Stamens 4; filaments glabrescent to sparsely hairy on the outer side. Gynoecium glabrous.
Mature fruit not recorded.
Flowering: Late spring to summer
Distribution and occurrence: Known only from Good Dog Mountain, Cambewarra Range, north of Nowra. Localised and found on an exposed rocky ridge in tall heath/scrub near rainforest.
NSW subdivisions: CC
Closely related to the nearby Zieria granulata (see Orel et al. (2023) Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society, 2023, XX, 1–21. https://doi.org/10.1093/botlinnean/boad069 )
Text by M.F.Duretto
Taxon concept: Orel et al. (2023) Telopea 26: 169–174. dx.doi.org/10.7751/telopea17501
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