Citation: Lindley in T.L. Mitchell, Three Exped. Int. eastern Austral. 2:47 (1838) var. bicornis.

Synonymy: Bassia bicornis (Lindley)F. Muell., Syst. Census Aust. Pl. 1:30 (1882); Chenolea bicornis (Lindley)F. Muell. ex Tate, Trans. R. Soc. S. Aust. 3:58 (1880).

Common name: Goathead burr.

Description:
Intricately branched shrub c. 0.5 m high; branches closely white-woolly; leaves well-spaced, slender and semiterete, c. 20 mm long, erect and spreading at the tips when young, sparsely silky-pilose with asperulous hairs to glabrous.

Flowers solitary; perianth densely woolly; stamens 5.

Fruiting perianth woody, covered with a thick white woolly indumentum except for the distal portion of the spines; attachment basal, elliptic, 2-5 mm long; tube globular, c. 6 mm diam.; limb erect; spines 2 rarely 3, opposite, erect to spreading, 10-20 mm long; seed horizontal; radicle erect.

	Sclerolaena bicornis fruit
Image source: fig. 169b 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. 248.

Distribution:    W.Aust.; N.T.; Qld; N.S.W. Conservation status: native Flowering time: Flowers and/or fruits: probably in all months.

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

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