Burrs. Unknown photographer, Trust for Nature, Ned's Corner Station Reserve, Lake Culluleraine, Vic

Leaves and burrs. Unknown photographer, Trust for Nature, Ned's Corner Station Reserve, Lake Culluleraine, Vic

Leaves. Unknown photographer, Trust for Nature, Ned's Corner Station Reserve, Lake Culluleraine, Vic

Plant. Unknown photographer, Trust for Nature, Ned's Corner Station Reserve, Lake Culluleraine, Vic

Common Name

Green Copperburr

Family

Chenopodiaceae

Notes

Shrub or perennial forb to 30cm tall, erect or sprawling.  Leaves succulent, 0.5-1.5cm long, narrow cylindrical to flattened cylindrical, hairless to hairy, with pointed tips.  Flowers tiny (less than 3mm across), solitary at the bases of the leaves.  Burrs hairless, with 2-3 spines, rarely 4 or 5.  Vulnerable Vic.

Description and photo (as Bassia decurrens) (page 251) and line drawing of burr (Fig. 46-14 page 253) in G.M. Cunningham, WE Mulham, PL Milthorpe and J H Leigh (1981 and later printings) Plants of Western New South Wales

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