Leaves and burrs. Photo: Don Wood, Scotia Sanctuary, NSW

Plant. Photo Do:n Wood, Scotia Sanctuary, NSW

Plant. Photo: Don Wood, Scotia Sanctuary, NSW

Plant with burrs. Photo: Chris Lindorff, Ned's Corner Station Reserve, Lake Culluleraine, Vic

Common Name

Spear-fruit Copperburr; Spear-fruit Bassia

Family

Chenopodiaceae

Notes

Shrub or perennial forb to 30cm tall or sprawling. Leaves succulent, 0.5-1cm long, linear to flattened cylindrical, hairy. Flowers tiny (less than 3mm across), solitary at the bases of the leaves. Burrs sparsely hairy, with 2 spines. Vulnerable Vic.

Differs from Sclerolaena obliquicuspis in that the two spines ascend in the same vertical plane.

Description (as Bassia patenticuspis) (page 256) and line drawing of burr (Fig. 46-27 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~patenticuspis