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Bertya cunninghamii

Bertya cunninghamii
Photo: Don and Betty Wood, CC BY 3.0
Family
Euphorbiaceae (Spurge family)
Grows as
Shrub
Native range
SE. Queensland to E. Victoria
Climate
subtropical

About

Bertya cunninghamii, commonly known as wallaby bush, gooma bush or sticky Bertya, is a species of flowering plant in the family Euphorbiaceae and is endemic to eastern Australia. It is a monoecious shrub with many branches, linear leaves, flowers borne singly or in pairs in leaf axils, and oval or elliptic capsules with a mottled seed.

Where it grows

Subspecies cunninghamia is confined to an area between Cobar, Nyngan, West Wyalong and Forbes in central New South Wales where it grows in woodland or mallee with eucalypts or Callitris species in sandy or loamy soils.

Other Bertya plants

Bertya brownii · Bertya calycina · 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 cunninghamii 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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