Flowers, fruiting bodies, and leaves. Photo: Don Wood, Scotia Sanctuary, NSW

Fruiting bodies and leaves. Photo: Don Wood, Scotia Sanctuary, NSW

Plant. Photo: Don Wood, Scotia Sanctuary, NSW

Common Name

Violet Twinleaf

Family

Zygophyllaceae

Notes

Annual forb to 16cm tall or sprawling.  Leaves opposite each other, with two succulent leaflets, (with an obvious junction between the basal section of the leaf and the leaflets), each 1-2cm long, 2-12mm wide, flat, hairless, tips notched.  Flowers yellow, with 5 petals, borne singly at the bases of the leaves.  Fruiting body with 5 angles. 

Description and photo (page 442), and line drawing of fruiting body (Fig. 53j 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~iodocarpum