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Bertya tasmanica
Bertya tasmanica is a species of flowering plant in the family Euphorbiaceae and is endemic to south-eastern Australia. It is a monoecious, or sometimes dioecious shrub with strap-like to linear leaves, and more or less sessile flowers borne singly in leaf axils, male flowers with 15 to 55 stamens and female flowers with hairy ovaries, the fruit a narrowly elliptic to narrowly oval capsule.
Bertya tasmanica subsp. vestita, is widespread from near Kimba in South Australia, eastwards to Swan Hill in Victoria near Coonabarabran and the Southern Tablelands of New South Wales where it mainly grows on sandplains or sand dunes in heath, shrubland, woodland or heath.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Bertya tasmanica 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.
