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Bertya oleifolia

Bertya oleifolia
Photo: Murray Fagg, CC BY 3.0 au
Family
Euphorbiaceae (Spurge family)
Grows as
Shrub
Native range
C. & SE. Queensland to E. New South Wales
Climate
subtropical

About

Bertya oleifolia is a species of flowering plant in the family Euphorbiaceae and is endemic to eastern Australia. It is an erect shrub with linear to lance-shaped or narrowly elliptic leaves, separate male and female flowers, and elliptic capsules densely covered with star-shaped hairs.

Where it grows

This species of Bertya grows on sandstone in shrubland, woodland and open forest, often in rocky places, between Jericho in Queensland and Ashford, in northern New South Wales, and between Rylstone and Nowra further south.

Other Bertya plants

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

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Bertya oleifolia 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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