| Acacia
verticillata (prickly moses, prickly mo or prickly
mimosa) is one of several species of Acacia with
narrow, hard, sharp, pointed phyllodes. It is very
widespread and common as a wet forest understorey species
(as a tall shrub or small tree). It is also common on the
coast.
The whorled phyllodes are distinctive, but varied. The
coastal forms (subsp. ruscifolia) have broad,
thick phyllodes, whereas forest forms often have very
narrow ones.
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