Roepera angustifolia
Scrambling TwinleafWeak ascending perennial subshrub 30–60 cm high; stems slender, sometimes scrambling over taller plants and reaching 150 cm in length. Leaves 15–40 mm long, green; leaflets articulate at base, linear to narrow oblong-elliptic, 10–25 mm long, 2–3(–4) mm wide, fleshy, apex acute; common petiole narrow. Sepals 4, ovate-lanceolate, 3–5 mm long, deflexed or spreading in fruit; petals 4, narrow-obovate to elliptic, 4–8 mm long, apex rounded, pale yellow; stamens 8, filaments subulate, lacking wings. Fruiting pedicels 8–25 mm long; fruit a 4-angled loculicidal capsule, obconical, 6–9 mm long, drooping, truncate at apex with a short point; seeds 1 or 2 per cell. Flowers mostly Jun.–Feb.
LoM, MuM, MSB, RobP. Also WA, SA, NSW. In Victoria, confined to the far north-west where occasional in mallee scrubland and herbfield, mainly on calcareous soils.
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.