Acacia verticillata
(L’Hér.) Willd. Prickly MosesSpreading shrub or erect tree, to 10 m high. Phyllodes sessile, acicular-quadrangular, linear or lanceolate, 0.5–2.5 cm long, 0.2–5 mm wide, pungent, mostly glabrous, alternate, fascicled or whorled, rigid, readily disarticulating; vein 1, rarely more; gland small. Inflorescence a spike or ovoid to spherical head, 1–3 per axil, to 2 cm long, cream to yellow; rachis glabrous to woolly; peduncles 2–15 mm long. Flowers 4-merous, usually densely packed; sepals united, pubescent. Pods linear, 2–8 cm long, 3–5 mm wide, compressed, hardly constricted between seeds, valves thin; seeds elliptic, c. 3–4 mm long, funicle filamentous for c. 2 mm and then folded and thickened into an oblique, turbinate aril.
Wim, GleP, VVP, GipP, OtP, WaP, Gold, CVU, GGr, DunT, EGL, EGU, WPro, HSF, HNF, OtR, Strz, VAlp.
A highly variable species with 4 subspecies, all occur in Victoria. Several of the subspecies have distinct populations within them. Intermediate forms may also be encountered where subspecies are sympatric.
Entwisle, T.J.; Maslin, B.R.; Cowan, R.S.; Court, A.B. (1996). Mimosaceae. In: Walsh, N.G.; Entwisle, T.J., Flora of Victoria Vol. 3, Dicotyledons Winteraceae to Myrtaceae, pp. 585–658. Inkata Press, Melbourne.
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