Bertya sharpeana Guymer

Shrub to 4 m high; young branchlets densely stellate-pubescent, glabrescent, tuberculate. Leaves alternate, narrowly ovate to ovate, 8–22 mm long, 3–10 mm wide; base obtuse to slightly cordate; margin recurved or flat; apex straight, obtuse to acute; adaxial surface sparsely hairy with stipitate stellate hairs 0.3–1.0 mm across, glabrescent, tuberculate. Inflorescences on peduncles 0.5–0.7 mm long. Male flowers: androecium 3–4 mm long; stamens 45–55. Female flowers sessile; calyx lobes ovate to oblong-ovate, 1–2.7 mm long, glabrous abaxially, with margins mostly fimbriate; ovary sparsely to densely stellate-pubescent. Fruit narrowly ellipsoid or narrowly ovoid, 4–8 mm long, sparsely stellate-pubescent, 1-seeded; persistent calyx lobes half the fruit length or less.

Grows on rhyolitic outcrops mostly in heath but occasionally in open forest or woodland communities, or on rainforest margins. Soils skeletal dark brown organic loam.