Bertya cunninghamii Planch. APNI* 
Description: Shrub 1.5–3 m high, ± glabrous, branches slender, ± viscid.
Leaves narrow-linear, 10–20 mm long, c. 1 mm wide, tapering at base, margins strongly revolute.
Flowers small; peduncles 1–2 mm long; bracts 4–7, 1–1.5 mm long, thick, narrow, unequal. Perianth segments 2–3 mm long; male segments ovate-oblong; female segments ovate to triangular, not enlarging under capsule. Ovary glabrous; styles shortly united or almost free, deeply bifid or trifid.
Capsule 6–8 mm long, glabrous.
Flowering: most of the year.
Distribution and occurrence: Widespread inland in eastern Australia. ST, CWS, NWP, SWP; Qld; Vic. Found in Callitris woodland and mallee communities.
NSW subdivisions: NT, ST, NWS, CWS, NWP, SWP
Other Australian states: Qld Vic.
Gooma bush, wallaby bush.
Text by T. A. James, G. J. Harden and D. M Crayn
Taxon concept: D. A. Halford and R. J. F. Henderson (2002)
Taxa not yet included in identification key
Bertya cunninghamii subsp. cunninghamii,
Bertya cunninghamii subsp. pubiramula,
Bertya cunninghamii subsp. rupicola
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