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Bertya lapicola is a species of flowering plant in the family Euphorbiaceae and is endemic to Queensland. It is a monoecious shrub with many branches, linear leaves, flowers borne singly in leaf axils or on the ends of branches, and narrowly oval or pear-shaped capsules with a light to dark brown seed.
This species of Bertya confined to south-east Queensland, where the subspecies have disjunct distributions. Subspecies brevifolia grows in open forest or woodland on shallow sandy soil on sandstone outcrops in the Carnarvon and Expedition Ranges in central Queensland, but subsp. lapicola grows in open forest communities and is confined to sandstone hills north of Helidon in south-east Queensland.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Bertya lapicola 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.
