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Kangaroo Island Bertya

Bertya rotundifolia

Kangaroo Island Bertya
Photo: Murray Fagg, CC BY 3.0 au
Family
Euphorbiaceae (Spurge family)
Grows as
Shrub
Native range
Southern Australia (Kangaroo I.)
Climate
subtropical

About

Bertya rotundifolia, commonly known as Kangaroo Island bertya, is a species of flowering plant in the family Euphorbiaceae and is endemic to Kangaroo Island in South Australia. It is a monoecious, sometimes dioecious shrub, with egg-shaped or round leaves, and more or less sessile flowers borne singly in leaf axils.

Where it grows

This species of Bertya is confined to the Kangaroo Island where it grows in coastal shrubland or woodland on sandy soil.

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 rotundifolia 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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