Bertya opponens (F.Muell. ex Benth.) Guymer APNI* Synonyms: Bertya oppositifolia F.Muell. & O'Shanesy APNI*
Bertya sp. Cobar-Coolabah (Cunningham & Milthorpe, s.n. 2 Aug 1973) APNI*
Bertya sp. A Cobar-Coolabah (Cunningham & Milthorpe s.n., 2/8/73) APNI*
Bertya sp. A sensu Harden (1990) APNI*
Bertya sp. A (aff. opponens) APNI*
Description: Slender shrub or small tree to 4 m high with a thick, whitish to brown tomentum.
Leaves mostly opposite, oblong to oblanceolate or narrow-elliptic, 10–50 mm long, 5–25 mm wide, with an apical gland; margins recurved to revolute, upper surface hairy, becoming scabrous, lower surface densely white-tomentose with prominent midrib; petiole 3–5 mm long.
Flowers ± sessile, 1–3 male and female flowers together; bracts 4, conspicuous, narrow, 2–5 mm long, thick, yellowish brown tomentose, 2 inner bracts ± obscure, heavily viscid. Perianth segments 4, broad-ovate, 5–6 mm long, mostly glabrous and viscid; female segments fused towards the base, lobes oblong-ovate. Ovary densely villous; styles 3 or 4, mostly deeply 4-lobed.
Capsule ovoid to globose, 8–9 mm long, densely villous.
Flowering: July and August
Distribution and occurrence: Found in shallow soils on ridges with mallee; recorded from the Cobar – Coolabah area.
NSW subdivisions: NC, NWP
Other Australian states: Qld
Threatened species: NSW BCA: Vulnerable; Commonwealth EPBC: Vulnerable
Text by T. A. James & G. J. Harden
Taxon concept: D.A. Halford & R.J.F. Henderson (2002)
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