Common name: Pinkwood, Sticky wallaby Bush
Beyeria viscosa (Labill.) Miq. APNI* 
Description: Shrub 3–4 m high.
Leaves oblong to oblanceolate, 2–5 cm long, 5–15 mm wide, flat or with slightly recurved margins, upper surface glabrous and often viscid, lower surface paler or whitish; tapering into petiole c. 3 mm long.
Male flowers 2 or 3 together; sepals c. 4 mm long; stamens numerous, short. Female flowers solitary; sepals 2–3 mm long; ovary nearly globose, stigma large, sessile.
Capsule glabrous or sparsely pubescent, viscid, 6–8 mm long with persistent stigma c. 2 mm wide.
Flowering: summer.
Distribution and occurrence: Widespread in skeletal soils on ridges and hilltops or in crevices of rock slabs and on steep bluffs.
NSW subdivisions: CC, SC, NT, CT, ST, NWS, CWS, SWS, NWP, SWP, SFWP
Other Australian states: Qld W.A. N.T.
Text by T. A. James & G. J. Harden
Taxon concept: Flora of NSW 1 (1990)
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