Citation: Ulbr., Natürl. Pflanzenfam. edn 2, 16c:534 (1934).

Synonymy: Anisacantha tricuspis F. Muell., J. Trans. Vict. Inst. 1:133 (1855); Chenolea tricuspis (F. Muell.) F. Muell., Fragm. Phyt. Aust. 10:92 (1876); Bassia tricuspis (F. Muell.) R. Anderson, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W. 48:335 (1923).

Common name: Streaked poverty-bush, three-spined bassia, giant redburr.

Description:
Shrub to 1 m high, glabrous apart from the pubescence in the leaf axils; leaves slender, terete, 10-20 mm long.

Flowers solitary; perianth glabrous or sparsely puberulent; stamens 5.

Fruiting perianth glabrous, standing almost at right angles to the branch or ascending; base horizontal, expanded; tube shortly cylindrical, c. 2 mm high and wide; limb conical; spines 3, symmetrically placed around the apex of the tube, slender, spreading, c. 10 mm long; seed and radicle horizontal to slightly oblique.

	Sclerolaena tricuspis fruit
Image source: fig. 170o 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. 257; Cochrane et al. (1968) Flowers and plants of Victoria, fig. 145.

Distribution:  S.Aust.: LE, MU.   N.S.W.; Vic. Conservation status: native Flowering time: Flowers and/or fruits: probably all months.

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

Biology: No text

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