Zieria fraseri is a plant in the citrus family Rutaceae and is endemic to eastern Australia. It is a dense, bushy shrub with leaves composed of three leaflets, and white flowers with four petals and four stamens. It usually grows in rocky places on steep hills.
Zieria fraseri is a dense, bushy shrub which grows to a height of about 2sigfig=1NaNsigfig=1. Its leaves are composed of three narrow elliptic to narrow egg-shaped leaflets with the middle leaflet NaNsigfig=1NaNsigfig=1 long and NaNsigfig=1NaNsigfig=1 wide and the others smaller. The leaf stalk is NaNsigfig=1NaNsigfig=1 long. The upper surface of the leaves is glabrous while the lower surface is covered with a dense layer of branched hairs and has an obvious mid-vein. The flowers are white to pale pink and are arranged in groups of between three and twenty or more in leaf axils. The four sepal lobes are about 2sigfig=1NaNsigfig=1 long and hairy on the outside. The four petals are about 5sigfig=1NaNsigfig=1 long, NaNsigfig=1NaNsigfig=1 wide and in common with other zierias, there are only four stamens. Flowering occurs in spring and is followed by fruit which is a glabrous follicle dotted with oil glands.[1] [2]
Zieria fraseri was first formally described in 1848 by William Jackson Hooker in Thomas Mitchell's Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia from a specimen collected on Mount Barney.[3] Hooker did not give a reason for the specific epithet (fraseri) but the type specimen was collected by Charles Fraser.
There are two subspecies:
This zieria grows in forest on rocky ridges and near cliffs in the McPherson Range in New South Wales and the Scenic Rim in Queensland.