Bertya ingramii T.A.James

Species

Angiosperms > Malpighiales > Euphorbiaceae > Bertya

Characteristics

Shrub to 2.5 m high; young branchlets with a dense white to grey-white indumentum of stellate hairs. Leaves alternate, linear to lorate, linear-obovate or narrowly ovate, 22–37 mm long, 1.9–5 mm wide; base cuneate to attenuate; margin recurved to revolute; apex obtuse to acute, rarely minutely apiculate; adaxial surface sparsely hairy with stipitate stellate hairs, glabrescent, minutely tuberculate. Inflorescences on peduncles 0.9–1.5 mm long. Male flowers: androecium 3.5–4.2 mm long; stamens 30–50. Female flowers sessile; calyx lobes ovate to broadly ovate, 1.5–2.2 mm long, glabrous abaxially, with margins fimbriate; ovary densely stellate-tomentose. Fruit narrowly ovoid to ovoid, 7.5–10 mm long, sparsely stellate-pubescent, glabrescent, 1(or 2)-seeded; persistent calyx lobes half the fruit length or less.
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Grows on edge of cliff lines and in crevices of cliff faces in dense shrubland or heathland. Soils are shallow loam over metasediments.
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Distribution

Bertya ingramii world distribution map, present in Australia

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:935332-1
WFO ID wfo-0000328762
COL ID LMYW
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Synonyms

Bertya ingramii