Scientific Name: Bertya tasmanica subsp. tasmanica Endemic Having a natural distribution confined to a particular geographic region

Common Name: tasmanian bertya

Family Classification (Clade): Eudicots

Family: Euphorbiaceae

Threatened Species Status: Endangered

Permit: It is an offence to collect, disturb, damage or destroy this species unless under permit.

Form Description: Erect, much-branched, heath-like shrub with long, narrow, alternate leaves 8-20cm long. Leaf margins rolled under, and lower surface covered with dense white woolly hairs.

Height (m): 2 – 3

Flowers: Small, golden and bell-shaped. Solitary, in the leaf axils or a few together on very short stalks.

Fruit: Capsule – dry, oval-shaped, and densely hairy, 6-8mm long, containing one smooth seed.

Municipality
Break O’DayGlamorgan-Spring BayNorthern Midlands
Plant Communities
RiparianWet Eucalypt Forest
Habitat Notes

In the north and east, in the understorey of wet sclerophyll forest on river and stream banks. One near-coastal population is known from near Coles Bay, within low she oak forest or wind-pruned coastal heath/scrub.

Propagation Calendar

  • Flowering Month
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  • Seed Collecting Month
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  • Sowing Month
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  • Cutting Month
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Propagation Method
Seed

Seed Information

Seed Collection

Dry capsules until open, and sieve seed.

Seed Storage Life

6 months

Seed Treatment Notes

Grown from seed; sow within 6 months of collection.