Beyeria opaca
Beyeria opaca, commonly known as smooth wallaby-bush, is a flowering plant in the family Euphorbiaceae. It is a perennial shrub with sticky leaves, yellowish sepals and grows in Victoria, South Australia, New South Wales and Western Australia.
Description
Beyeria opaca is an upright perennial shrub to high. Leaves initially yellowish green turning dark grey as they age. The leaves and branches sticky, leaves long, wide, oblong to wedge-shaped, shiny green on upper surface, pale underneath, hairless, tapering at the base, margins flat or curved. Male flowers in a small cluster of 1-3, sepals yellow to brown, long, female flowers solitary, sepals greenish, shorter on a peduncle long. Flowering occurs mainly in spring and the fruit is an ovoid, flattened capsule, usually long.
Taxonomy
Beyeria opaca was first formally described in 1854 by Ferdinand von Mueller and the description was published in Transactions of the Philosophical Society of Victoria.
Distribution and habitat
Smooth wallaby-bush grows on sand dunes, sand plains and red sandy clay in South Australia, New South Wales, Victoria and Western Australia.