phyllode , auch: phyllodium

Thus, the phyllode comes to serve the purpose of the leaf.

Two to four glands are found below the center of the phyllode and near the mucro.

There may or may not be normal pinnate leaves at the tip of the phyllode.

The tip of the phyllode is obtuse with a mucro, a small hard point, pointing downward.

Damage to growing pitcher leaves prevent them from forming proper pitchers, and again, the plant produces a phyllode instead.

Furthermore, each phyllode extends into a spine.

At the base of each phyllode is a nectary gland, which secretes a sugary fluid.

The bright yellow flowers occur as elongated spikes up to 50 mm long in the phyllode axils.

It was a single red-flowering plant growing among the usual yellow flowered forms of the large phyllode variant of Acacia leprosa (Acacia leprosa var.

Acacia obtusifolia can be distinguished by it having phyllode margins which are resinous, it usually blooms later in the year and it has paler flowers than Acacia longifolia.