Bertya cunninghamii Planch.

Species

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Characteristics

Shrub to 3 m high, viscid on most parts; young branchlets glabrous or with a sparse indumentum of stellate hairs, thickly viscid on longitudinal ridges. Leaves alternate, linear, 7–27 mm long, 0.6–1 mm wide; base cuneate; margin recurved to midrib concealing abaxial surface; apex straight or slightly recurved, rounded to obtuse; adaxial surface glabrous, smooth. Inflorescences on peduncles 0.2–1.8 mm long. Male flowers: androecium 2.5–4.2 mm long; stamens 15–60. Female flowers sessile or on pedicels up to 2.5 mm long; calyx lobes ovate, narrowly oblong or oblong-ovate, 1.3–2.3 mm long, glabrous abaxially, with margins entire or sometimes minutely fimbriate proximally; ovary glabrous. Fruit ovoid or ellipsoid, 4.8–7.2 mm long, glabrous, 1-seeded; persistent calyx lobes half the fruit length or shorter.
Life form perennial
Growth form shrub
Growth support free-standing
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Mature height (meter) 3.0
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Photosynthetic pathway c3

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Hardiness (USDA) 8-12

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Distribution

Bertya cunninghamii world distribution map, present in Australia

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:339860-1
WFO ID wfo-0000328644
COL ID LMYL
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Synonyms

Bertya cunninghamii

Lower taxons

Bertya cunninghamii subsp. cunninghamii Bertya cunninghamii subsp. pubiramula Bertya cunninghamii subsp. rupicola