Scorpiurus muricatus var. subvillosus
(L.) Lam.Procumbent to suberect herb to c. 80 cm high; stems ribbed, glabrous or with dense subappressed hairs. Leaves lanceolate, narrowly elliptic or oblanceolate, 2–6 cm long, 5–20 mm wide, subglabrous faintly 3-veined; apex usually acute; base tapering to long petiole; petiole flattened or channelled, 1.5–5 cm long. Inflorescence a (1–)2–6-flowered umbel; peduncles 3–15(–25) cm long. Pedicles 2–3 mm long, densely hairy; calyx 3–5 mm long, glabrous or sparsely hairy, lobes c. equal to tube; corolla 5–12 mm long, yellow. Pod 1.5–5 cm long, 2–4 mm wide, strongly coiled or irregularly twisted and contorted, ribs covered with spines or tubercules and hooked bristles, constricted between seeds; seeds crescent-shaped, 3–4.5 mm long. Flowers summer.
Also Qld, NSW. Native to northern Africa, Asia, Europe. Recorded by Ewart (1931) (as S. sulcata L.) as a Victorian adventive on the basis of a single collection on the Delatite River near Mansfield (in 1890).