Burrs and leaves. Photo: Chris Lindorff, Ned's Corner Station Reserve, Lake Culluleraine, Vic

Burrs and leaves. Photo: Chris Lindorff, Ned's Corner Station Reserve, Lake Culluleraine, Vic

Burrs and leaves. Photo: Chris Lindorff, Ned's Corner Station Reserve, Lake Culluleraine, Vic

Burrs and leaves. Photo: Else Foster, Mungo National Park, NSW

Common Name

Tangled Copperburr; Poverty Bush, Pale Poverty Bush; Tangled Bassia

Family

Chenopodiaceae

Notes

Shrub or perennial forb to 75cm tall.  Leaves succulent, 0.8-1.5cm long, linear, cylindrical to flattened cylindrical, hairless.  Flowers tiny (less than 3mm across), solitary at the bases of the leaves.  Burrs hairless, with 3-4 spines, the fourth much reduced.  Poorly known Vic.

Description and photo (as Bassia divaricata) (pages 251-2) and line drawing of burr (Fig. 46-16 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~divaricata