[4] The smooth relatively thin branched, erect shrub is often lime green with dull, light brown sessile clustered flowers.

[5] Ampera xipholoclada is found throughout Australia’s eastern and southern coastal areas and inland ranges,[6] as well as much of Tasmania.

[7] What appear to be long leaves like a monocot grass clump, the erect structures are instead glabrous stems, smooth and mainly hairless.

[10] Plants in the Euphorbiaceae family have diverse uses, but must be treated with caution as a large proportion of species are toxic, either in the seeds or in the flesh of stems.

Ampera xiphloclada can be used for ground coverage and as an understory plant, and when given access to sunlight it can create a hedge-like feature.