Female flowers and leaves. Photo: Don Wood, Scotia Sanctuary, NSW

Male flowers and leaves. Photo: Don Wood, Scotia Sanctuary, NSW

Shrub. Photo: Don Wood, Scotia Sanctuary, NSW

Common Name

Smooth Wallaby Bush, Dark Turpentine Bush

Family

Euphorbiaceae

Notes

Shrub to 1.5m tall.  Leaves alternating up the stems, 0.1-1.5cm long, 2-7mm wide, flat, sticky, hairless, the edges flat or curved slightly downwards, and blunt tips.  Male and female flowers on different plants.  Flowers with 0 petals, 5 sepals.  Male sepals yellowish, turning brown, female sepals yellow-green, often small (less than 3mm across).  Male flowers 1-3, female flowers solitary, at the bases of the leaves or at the ends of short shoots.

Description and photo of male flowers and fruiting bodies and leaves in G.M. Cunningham, WE Mulham, PL Milthorpe and J H Leigh (1981 and later printings) Plants of Western New South Wales page 454

PlantNET description:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Beyeria~opaca