Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Bertya pomaderroides
Common name
None
Family
Euphorbiaceae
Where found
Dry forest, usually on stream banks. Coast, ranges, and Southern Highlands, north of west of Ulladulla
Notes
Shrub to 1 m high, usually densely hairy with whitish to rusty stellate hairs (needs a hand lens or a macro app on your phone/tablet to see), becoming more or less hairless. Leaves alternating up the stems, 1–3 cm long, 3–12 mm wide, upper surface dark green and hairless, lower surface whitish tomentose, margins curved down. Male and female flowers on different plants or on the same plant. Flowers with 4-5 'petals', each 2–3 mm long, hairless. Flowering: spring to summer.
Intermediates occur in the Sydney region and on the South Coast between Bertya pomaderroides and Bertya brownii. upper surface of the leaves is hairless, the perianth and ovary are mostly hairless as in Bertya pomaderroides and the leaves are larger and with flatter margins as in Bertya brownii.
The note in PlantNET that provides these facts is unchanged from that in James, T.A. & Harden, G.J. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (2000), Euphorbiaceae. Flora of New South Wales Revised Edition 1: 417 (accessed 6 February 2021)
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Bertya~pomaderroides (accessed 6 February 2021)
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