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Bertya calycina

Bertya calycina
Photo: MargaretRDonald, CC BY-SA 4.0
Family
Euphorbiaceae (Spurge family)
Grows as
Shrub
Native range
SC. Queensland
Climate
seasonally dry tropical

About

Bertya calycina is a species of flowering plant in the family Euphorbiaceae and is endemic to Queensland. It is a shrub with many branches, linear leaves, flowers borne singly or in pairs in leaf axils or on the ends of branches, and narrowly elliptic capsules with a dark brown seed.

Where it grows

This species of Bertya grows in ironbark-bloodwood woodland on sandy or loamy soils in gullies of a sandstone plateau in an area of sandstone outcrops in the Chesterton Range in south-west Queensland.

Other Bertya plants

Bertya brownii · Bertya cunninghamii · Bertya dimerostigma · Bertya ernestiana · Bertya findlayi · Bertya glandulosa · Bertya grampiana · Bertya granitica · Bertya gummifera · Bertya ingramii · Bertya lapicola · Bertya linearifolia

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Bertya calycina by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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