Common Name

Pale Twinleaf

Family

Zygophyllaceae

Notes

Annual or biennial forb to 40cm tall or prostrate. Leaves opposite each other, with two succulent lobes, rarely leaflets (with a joint between the leaflets and the leaf stem), each 1-4cm long, 10-31mm wide, flat, hairless, often glaucous, tips rounded. Flowers yellow, with 4 petals, borne singly at the bases of the leaves. Fruiting body with 4 angles.

Description and photo (page 441), and line drawing of fruiting body (Fig. 53g page 440) 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=Zygophyllum~glaucum