Acacia verticillata (L'Hér.) Willd.

Shrub to small tree; twigs ribbed, sparsely to densely hairy. Lvs reduced to phyllodes, mostly verticillate; phyllodes ± glabrous or ciliate about veins and margins, linear to elliptic, usually slightly asymmetric, acute and long-mucronate, entire, 6–17 × (0.5)–1–3–(4) mm, with one prominent vein and often 1–2 less prominent veins; stipules linear to triangular, mucronate, 1–2 mm long, not always conspicuous in mature plants. Fls 4-merous, pale yellow, solitary but concentrated in axillary cylindric spikes; spikes > lvs. Pod sparsely hairy, becoming ± glabrous when mature, ± straight or slightly curved, 50–100 × 2–4 mm; aril folded, somewhat thickened at base of seed.

[From: Webb et al. (1985) Flora of New Zealand. Volume 4 as Racosperma verticillatum (L'Hér.) Mart.]