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Beyeria lechenaultii (DC.) Baill.
Family Euphorbiaceae
Common name: Pale Turpentine Bush

Beyeria lechenaultii (DC.) Baill. APNI*

Synonyms: Beyeria lechenaultii (DC.) Baill. APNI*
Beyeria viscosa var. angustifolia F.Muell. & Tate APNI*

Description: Viscid shrub to 1.5 m high.

Leaves ± oblong to linear, 1–30 mm long, 2–4 mm wide, margins ± recurved, lower surface woolly except on narrow midrib.

Male flowers 1–3 together on viscid peduncles 1–6 mm long; female flowers solitary on short whitish peduncles lengthening in fruit. Male sepals 1–2 mm long, ± viscid; female sepals c. 2 mm long, whitish. Stigma with 3 broad recurved lobes at base.

Capsule ovoid to globose, 6–8 mm long, with persistent stigma, peduncle whitish, 3–5 mm long, usually 3-seeded; seeds c. 5 mm long, reddish brown.


Illustration
L. Elkan

Flowering: spring.

Distribution and occurrence: Found as an understorey shrub layer in mallee communities on calcareous red earths.
NSW subdivisions: CWS, SWP
Other Australian states: Vic. W.A. S.A.
AVH map***

Text by T. A. James & G. J. Harden
Taxon concept: Flora of NSW 1 (1990)


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