Zieria compacta is a plant in the citrus family Rutaceae and is endemic to eastern Australia.

It is an erect, bushy shrub with leaves composed of three leaflets, and white flowers with four petals and four stamens.

The branches are smooth and lack obvious glands but are covered with a dense layer of hairs, especially when young.

Flowering occurs in spring and is followed by fruit which is a glabrous follicle composed of up to four sections joined at the base and which burst open to release their seeds when ripe.

[2][3]Zieria compacta was first formally described in 1942 by Cyril Tenison White in Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland from a specimen collected near Stanthorpe.