Bertya pomaderroides
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| Bertya pomaderroides | |
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| In the Australian National Botanic Gardens | |
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Rosids |
| Order: | Malpighiales |
| Family: | Euphorbiaceae |
| Genus: | Bertya |
| Species: | B. pomaderroides |
| Binomial name | |
| Bertya pomaderroides | |
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| Occurrence data from Australasian Virtual Herbarium | |
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Bertya pomaderroides is a species of flowering plant in the family Euphorbiaceae and is endemic to New South Wales. It is a spreading shrub, usually with narrowly elliptic to oblong or narrowly oblong leaves, separate male and female flowers, and oval capsules, sometimes with star-shaped hairs.
Bertya pomaderroides is a spreading shrub with many branches and that typically grows to a height of up to 2 m (6 ft 7 in). Its young branchlets are covered with whitish or rust-covered hairs at first, but that later become glabrous. The leaves are mostly narrowly elliptic to oblong or narrowly oblong, 10–30 mm (0.39–1.18 in) long and 3–12 mm (0.12–0.47 in) wide. The upper surface is dark green and glabrous, the lower surface covered with woolly, whitish hairs. Separate male and female flowers are borne on a peduncle up to 15 mm (0.59 in) long, the male flowers with 55 to 55 stamens. Female flowers are sessile or on a pedicel up to 1.5 mm (0.059 in) long, with narrowly triangular sepals 2.1–2.7 mm (0.083–0.106 in) long with a more or less glabrous ovary. Flowering occurs throughout the year with a peak in September and October, and the fruit is a narrowly oval capsule 6.5–9.8 mm (0.26–0.39 in) long, sometimes with star-shaped hairs, and a single seed.[2][3][4]