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Bertya virgata

Bertya virgata
Photo: MargaretRDonald, CC BY-SA 4.0
Family
Euphorbiaceae (Spurge family)
Grows as
Shrub
Native range
S. Western Australia
Climate
subtropical

About

Bertya virgata is a species of flowering plant in the family Euphorbiaceae and is endemic to Western Australia. It is a dioecious shrub with many branches, sessile, oblong leaves, and sessile flowers borne singly in leaf axils.

Where it grows

This species of Bertya grows on sand dunes near salt lakes in open mallee, on sand or pebbly sandy clay between Coolgardie and Norseman in the Coolgardie and Mallee bioregions of Western Australia.

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 virgata 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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