Citation: F. Muell., Linnaea 25:374 (1853).

Synonymy: Z. glaucescens F. Muell. var. lobulatum Benth., Fl. Aust. 1:293 (1863).

Common name: Lobed (or notched) twinleaf

Description:
Annual with rather stout procumbent or ascending branches; leaflets narrow-oblong to narrow-obovate, obliquely cuneate, 1-2 cm long, with 3 blunt teeth at the apex.

sepals 4; petals 4, obovate, 7-9 mm long, about twice as long as the sepals, bright-yellow; stamens 8; filaments winged in the lower part; wings fringed at the apex; disk short, sinuate.

capsule ovoid-oblong, 15-20 mm long, 4-angled, loculicidal, drooping; seeds 3-8 in each cell.

	Zygophyllum crenatum fruit and leaf.
Image source: fig 393g 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. 440, fig. 53e.

Distribution:  Stony brown clay.   N.T.; N.S.W.; Vic. Conservation status: native Flowering time: Aug. — Oct.

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

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