Roepera similis
(H.Eichler) Beier & Thulin White TwinleafErect or ascending much-branched annual herb 10–30 cm high; stems spreading and ascending. Leaves 10–40 mm long, green; leaflets articulate at base, linear to narrow-oblong, 5–20 mm long, 1.5–4 mm wide, fleshy, apex rounded; common petiole narrow. Sepals 4, ovate, 1.5–3 mm long, deflexed or spreading in fruit; petals 4, cuneate, 1–1.7 mm long, apex often 3-lobed or sometimes blunt with a wavy margin, white; stamens 8, filaments filiform, broadening towards base. Fruiting pedicels 1–4 mm long; fruit a 4-angled loculicidal capsule, turbinate, 5–7 mm long, drooping, truncate at apex with a short point; seeds usually 1 or 2 per cell. Flowers mostly May–Dec.
LoM, MuM, Wim, VRiv, MSB, RobP. All mainland states. In Victoria, confined mainly to the far north-west where found in mallee scrub and riverine woodland on sand or heavier clay soils, but with an outlying occurrence near Kerang.
See note after R. ammophila.
Jeanes, J.A. (1999). Zygophyllaceae. In: Walsh, N.G.; Entwisle, T.J., Flora of Victoria Vol. 4, Cornaceae to Asteraceae, pp. 198–207. Inkata Press, Melbourne.
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