It is a shrub with warty, hairy branches and leaves and large groups of creamy-white, four-petalled flowers in late winter to spring.

Zieria tuberculata is a shrub that grows to a height of 3.5 m (10 ft) and has warty branches and leaves which are also covered with star-like hairs, usually visible only with a magnifier.

[1][2][3] Zieria tuberculata was first formally described in 2002 by James Armstrong and the description was published in Australian Systematic Botany.

[6] This zieria occurs in the Mount Gulaga area, growing in exposed, rocky outcrops on the edge of rainforest.

The main threats to its survival are habitat destruction caused by grazing animals and the weeds lantata (Lantana camara) and ivy (Hedera helix).