Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Acacia verticillata subsp. verticillata
Common name
Prickly Moses
Family
Fabaceae
Where found
Forest and heath, mostly in damp or swampy areas. Coast and ranges south from Eden and Bombala. One coastal record from near Mogo, south of Batemans Bay, and a few sightings at Jervis Bay.
Notes
Shrub or tree to 5 m tall. Sharp-pointed 'leaves'. Seeds with a fleshy, oblique, top shaped, aril. Bark smooth. Branchlets hairy, angled, ridged, becoming cylindrical. 'Leaves' usually whorled, sometimes clustered, very occasionally alternating up the stems, 0.5-2.5 cm long, 0.5-3 mm wide, rigid, surfaces sparsely hairy or hairless, midvein prominent, tips sharply pointed. Stipules at the bases of the leaves shed early. Flower heads yellow to cream, cylindrical, 10-15 mm long, in 1-3 flowered clusters. Flowers Winter to Summer.
Family was Mimosaceae.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Acacia~verticillata(accessed 28 April 2021)
World Wide Wattle photos, line drawings and description: http://www.worldwidewattle.com/imagegallery/image.php?p=0&l=v&id=23864&o=1
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