Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Bertya rosmarinifolia

Male flowers on stems. Photographer Michael Bedingfield, Murrumbidgee River, ACT

Stem with young seed cases. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, Australian National Botanic Gardens

Shrub. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, Australian National Botanic Gardens

Common name

Bertya

Family

Euphorbiaceae

Where found

Forest, woodland, shrubland, and stream banks. Mainly ACT. Occasionally elsewhere.

Notes

Shrub to 3 m high with a short close whitish stellate tomentum, often becoming hairless. Leaves alternating up the stems, 0.7–2.5 cm long, 0.5–2 mm wide, margins rolled or curved down. Male and female flowers on different plants or on the same plant. Male flowers pale yellow, female flowers red. Flowers 4-5 mm long, with 5 'petals'. Flowers mostly single. Flowering: spring to summer.

All native plants on unleased land in the ACT are protected.

PlantNET description:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Bertya~rosmarinifolia (accessed 6 February 2021)