Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Bertya findlayi

Line drawings. e. flowering branch; male flower; seed case. E Mayfield, National Herbarium of Victoria, © 2021 Royal Botanic Gardens Board

Common name

Mountain bertya

Family

Euphorbiaceae

Where found

Wet forest, gullies, and stream banks.Kosciuszko National Park and nearby.

Notes

Shrub to 4 m high. Branchlets densely hairy with yellowish brown stellate hairs (needs a hand lens or a macro app on your phone/tablet to see), becoming hairless but remaining minutely warty from the persistent hair bases. Leaves alternating up the stems, 2–7 cm long, mostly 4–9 mm wide, upper surface dark green and hairless, lower surface paler with a velvety covering of stellate hairs, margins flat to curved down. Male and female flowers on different plants or on the same plant. Flowers with 4-5 'petals' each 3–4.6 mm long. Flowers single, rarely in 2s or 3s. Flowering: summer. 

Vulnerable Vic.

PlantNET description:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Bertya~findlayi (accessed 5 January, 2021)