Citation: Gross, Bot. Jb. 49:347 (1913).

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: Spiny lignum.

Description:
Shrub, erect or prostrate, to 60 cm high; branches many, spreading at wide angles, ending in a spine; leaves narrow-linear, caducous, margins revolute, in clusters of 2-5 or more at intervals of up to c. 2 cm along the branches, to c. 3 cm long and c. 1 mm broad.

fruiting perianth broadly fusiform and angular-tuberculate; nut broadly fusiform and more or less 4-sided, with rounded edges, brown, shining.

	Fruiting perianth (above) and fruit
Image source: fig. 95f in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).

Published illustration: Cunningham et al. (1982) Plants of western New South Wales, p. 230.

Distribution:    N.S.W.; Vic. Conservation status: native Flowering time: March — Oct.

SA Distribution Map based on current data relating to specimens held in the State Herbarium of South Australia

Biology: No text

Taxonomic notes: No fruits have been seen from the GT region but, morphologically, the single specimen seems to belong to M. horrida. The record from the SE is based on a sight record by L. Williams.

Author: Not yet available