Citation: Ising, Trans. R.Soc. S. Aust. 81:167, figs 10-14 (1958).

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: None

Description:
Erect perennial glaucous subshrub with a thick stem and thick spreading branches, c. 40-60 cm high; leaves very fleshy; leaflets very broad, obliquely obovate-cuneate, to 4 cm long, appearing continuous with a very short 2-6 (rarely to 10)mm long petiole (articulation not visible when fresh), glaucous.

sepals 4, ovate, c. 3-6 mm long, acuminate; petals 4, obovate-cuneate, 6-7 (rarely to 9) mm long, yellow; stamens 8; filaments winged in the lower part; wings entire.

Capsule broad-oblong, 10-17 mm long and almost as wide, 4-angled, loculicidal, drooping; seeds 1 or 2 in each cell.

	Zygophyllum crassissimum fruit and leaf.
Image source: fig 393f in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).

Distribution:  Gypseous flats and rocky rises. Conservation status: native Flowering time: June — Oct.

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

Biology: No text

Taxonomic notes: A collection of plants with deep orange petals from NW may belong here.-Z. crassissimum is closely allied with Z. glaucum, a species the wide variation of which is as yet poorly understood.

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