Common name: Lobed Twinleaf
Roepera crenata (F.Muell.) Beier & Thulin APNI* Synonyms: Zygophyllum crenatum F.Muell. APNI*
Description: Annual with rather stout procumbent or ascending branches.
Leaflets articulate at base, narrow-oblong to narrow-obovate, 10–20 mm long, obliquely cuneate, with 3 blunt teeth at the apex.
Sepals 4. Petals 4, obovate, 7–9 mm long, about twice as long as sepals, bright yellow. Stamens 8; filaments winged in lower part; wings fringed at apex. Fruiting pedicels 3–11 mm long, usually recurved.
Capsule sharply 4-angled, ovoid-oblong, 15–20 mm long; seeds 3–6 per loculus.
Flowering: August–October
Distribution and occurrence: Grows on stony brown clay; chiefly west of Balranald area. Also in eastern South Australia and NW Victoria.
NSW subdivisions: SWP, NFWP, SFWP
Other Australian states: Vic. S.A.
Text by Hj. Eichler (1992); edited KL Wilson (Jan 2014)
Taxon concept: Flora of NSW 3 (1992)
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