Bertya pedicellata
Bertya pedicellata
Family Euphorbiaceae
About
Bertya pedicellata is a species of flowering plant in the family Euphorbiaceae and is endemic to Queensland. It is a shrub with many branches, linear leaves, separate male and female flowers, male flowers with 55 to 70 stamens, female flowers with a sparsely hairy ovary, and narrowly elliptic capsules usually with a single seed.
How to spot it
Bertya pedicellata is a shrub that typically grows to a height of up to 6 m (20 ft) and has many branches covered with white, star-shaped hairs, and most parts of the plant sticky. The leaves are linear to elliptic or egg-shaped with the narrower end towards the base, 40–92 mm (1.6–3.6 in) long and 3–10 mm (0.12–0.39 in) wide, the edges of the leaves curved downwards or sometimes rolled under. The flowers are more or less sessile or on a peduncle up to 6 mm (0.24 in) long. The male flowers are 5
Documented on these trails
Found in
- Mount Barney National Park — South East Queensland hikes