Sclerolaena anisacanthoides (F.Muell.) Domin

Glabrous rounded perennial to 15 cm high, branching from base. Leaves slender, terete, 5–10 mm long, fleshy. Flowers solitary. Stamens 5. Fruiting perianth cylindrical, c. 2.5 mm high excluding spines; lower half to two-thirds forming a hollow, sometimes swollen, base with truncate circular attachment; apex bearing 6 erect spines 0.5–2 mm long, the collateral pair borne on the shortly ascending radicular tubercle; limb insignificant. Seed horizontal with ascending radicle.

Grows in heavy soil.