Zygophyllum leptopetalum old stems

Old Zygophyllum leptopetalum stems become brown and eventually dark to pale grey and woody. Gnarled patches are concentrated at the nodes, the smoother internodes faintly longitudinally ridged. Internodes are fairly short, subsequent stem sections sometimes abruptly thinner than the immediately preceding ones.

Style remains persisting on the fruits are fairly long, about half as long as the elliptoid fruit and still tipped with discernible, tiny stigmas. The pale calyx remains are fully reflexed, having joined the fruit stalk as a close covering at the back.

More pointed than rounded, leaflet tips are visible in the photo, the leaflets considerably yellower than the often-seen glaucous colouring (Mannheimer and Curtis, (Eds.), 2009; Le Roux, et al, 2005; iNaturalist).