Zieria tenuis is a plant in the citrus family Rutaceae and endemic to the northern inland of Queensland.

It is an open, straggly shrub with wiry branches, three-part leaves and groups of nine to twelve flowers with four white or pinkish petals and four stamens.

Zieria tenuis is an open, straggly shrub which grows to a height of 1.5 m (5 ft) and has wiry branches covered with soft hairs.

The leaves are composed of three oblong to narrow elliptic leaflets, the central leaflet one 9–32 mm (0.4–1 in) long and 3–7 mm (0.1–0.3 in) wide.

[2] Zieria tenuis was first formally described in 2007 by Marco Duretto and Paul Irwin Forster from a specimen collected from Agate Creek near Forsayth and the description was published in Austrobaileya.