Burrs and leaves. Photo: Russell Best, Murray Sunset National Park, Vic

Burrs and leaves. Photo: Don Wood, Scotia Sanctuary, NSW

Shrub. Photo: Don Wood, Scotia Sanctuary, NSW

Shrub. Phot: Don Wood, Scotia Sanctuary, NSW

Shrub. Photo: Richard Hartland, Sunset Country, vic

Common Name

Limestone Copperburr, Limestone Bindii, Oblique-spined Bassia

Family

Chenopodiaceae

Notes

Shrub or perennial forb to 50cm tall.  Leaves succulent, linear to narrow flattened cylindrical, 0.6-1cm long, hairy.  Flowers tiny (less than 3mm across), solitary at the bases of the leaves.  Burrs hairy, with 2 spines. 

Differs from Sclerolaena patenticuspis in that the two spines ascend in different vertical planes.

Description and photo (as Bassia obliquicuspis) (page 255) and line drawing of burr (Fig. 46-23 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~obliquicuspis