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Amperea Xiphoclada Plants of South Eastern New South Wales Flowering stem (var. xiphoclada). Australian Plant Flowering plants (var. xiphoclada). Photographer Don Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, Near Port Wood, west of Cobargo Arthur Historic site, Tas Common name Broom Spurge Family Euphorbiaceae Where found Forest, woodland, and heath. Coast, ranges, and the eastern part of the tablelands. Notes Shrub to 0.9 m high. Stems rigid, angular. Sometimes leafless. Leaves, when present, alternating up the stems, the lower leaves 0.5–2.5 cm long, margins often toothed. Upper leaves linear, scale-like, usually less than 1 cm long, margins entire. Male and female flowers usually on the same plant, sometimes male and female flowers on different plants. Male flowers with 4 or 5 'petals', female flowers with 5 'petals'. Flowers 2–3 mm long. Flowers clustered at the nodes, surrounded by small brown bracts; males often numerous, females single or surrounded by a few male flowers. PlantNET description of species and key to varieties: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl? page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Amperea~xiphoclada (accessed 3 January, 2021) var. papillata: Ridges along at least the lower parts of the stems warty. Leaves to 0.7 cm long, upper surface and lower midrib warty. All flowers more or less stalkless. var. pedicellata: Leaves to 1 cm long. Most female flowers with stalks 1–13 mm long. Known only from the original collection in 1892 from Sydney. Extinct Australia. Presumed Extinct NSW. Provisions of the NSW Biodiversity Conservation Act 2016 No 63 relating to the protection of protected plants generally also apply to plants that are a threatened species. NSW Threatened Species profile: http://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/threatenedSpeciesApp/profile.aspx? id=20224 (accessed 3 January, 2021) var. xiphoclada: Ridges along stems smooth, or irregularly sparsely warty. Leaves to 2.5 cm long, both surfaces smooth. All flowers more or less stalkless. Author: Betty Wood. This identification key and fact sheets are available as a free mobile application: Android edition iOS edition Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia (CC BY).
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