Zieria whitei is a plant in the citrus family Rutaceae and is endemic to a small area of north Queensland.

It is a dense, compact shrub with erect wiry branches, three-part leaves and groups of up to three white to pale pink flowers with four petals and four stamens.

Zieria whitei is a dense compact shrub which grows to a height of 0.5 m (2 ft) and has erect, wiry branches which are more or less hairy when young.

[3][4] In 2002, James Armstrong raised the variety to species status, giving it the name Zieria whitei but did not publish the change.

"[2] This zieria grows among heathy shrubs and in woodland near Ravenshoe and Atherton in the Einasleigh Uplands biogeographic region.