Bertya pinifolia is a species of flowering plant in the family Euphorbiaceae and is endemic to Queensland. It is a monoecious, sticky shrub with many branches, linear leaves, separate male and female flowers arranged singly, male flowers with 30 to 45 stamens, female flowers with a ovary, and narrowly elliptic capsules usually with a single seed.
Bertya pinifolia is a monoecious shrub that typically grows to a height of up to and has many glabrous branches, with most parts of the plant sticky. The leaves are linear, long and wide on a petiole long. The lower surface of the leaves is densely covered with white, star shaped hairs, the edges curved downwards or rolled under. The flowers are arranged singly in leaf axils on a pedicel up to long. Male flowers have five yellowish green egg-shaped to elliptic sepals long and 30 to 45 stamens. Female flowers have five yellowish-green, elliptic to oblong sepals long and a glabrous ovary long and wide, the style with three deeply lobed red limbs. Flowering has been observed from July to September, and the fruit is narrowly elliptic, long and wide, usually with a single seed.
Bertya pinifolia was first formally described in 1845 by Jules ÃÂmile Planchon in Hooker's London Journal of Botany from specimens collected near Brisbane by Charles Fraser. The specific epithet (pinifolia) means 'pine-leaved'.
This species of Bertya grows in rocky ridges in open heath or shrubland near Boonah in south-eastern Queensland.
Bertya pinifolia is listed as "vulnerable" under the Australian Government Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 and the Queensland Government Nature Conservation Act 1992.