Burrs and leaves. Australian Plant Image Index, photo: Murray Fagg, Maude Road, 30km west of Hay, NSW

Burrs and leaves. Australian Plant Image Index, photo: Murray Fagg, Maude Road, 30km west of Hay, NSW

Burrs and leaves. Photo: Chris Lindorff, Neds Corner Station Reserve, Lake Culluleraine, Vic

Plant. Photo: Chris Lindorff, Neds Corner Station Reserve, Lake Culluleraine, Vic

Shrub. Australian Plant Image Index, photo: Murray Fagg, Maude Road, 30km west of Hay, NSW

Common Name

Streaked Poverty Bush, Giant Redburr, Three-spined Bassia

Family

Chenopodiaceae

Notes

Shrub or perennial forb to 1m tall.  Leaves succulent, 0.8-2cm long, narrow cylindrical, hairless.  Flowers tiny (less than 3mm across), solitary at the bases of the leaves.  Burrs hairless; with 3 spines. 

Description and photo (as Bassia tricuspis) (page 257) and line drawing of burr (Fig. 46-30 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~tricuspis