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An Acacia with very large falcate, glaucous phyllodia, and the Euphorbiaceous Severn-tree, were very plentiful; and Crinum grew in thousands on the sandy flats.

From Journal of an Overland Expedition in Australia : from Moreton Bay to Port Essington, a distance of upwards of 3000 miles, during the years 1844-1845 by Leichhardt, Ludwig

Leighton, that the fluid so abundantly secreted by glands on the phyllodia of the Australian Acacia magnifica, which stand near the flowers, is connected with their fertilisation.

From Effects of Cross and Self Fertilisation in the Vegetable Kingdom by Darwin, Charles

So also the leaves of Boltonia, of Wild Lettuce, and of a vast number of Australian Myrtaceous shrubs and trees, which much resemble the phyllodia of the Acacias of the same country.

From The Elements of Botany For Beginners and For Schools by Gray, Asa

A low shrubby Acacia with sigmoid phyllodia was frequent on the hills.

From Journal of an Overland Expedition in Australia : from Moreton Bay to Port Essington, a distance of upwards of 3000 miles, during the years 1844-1845 by Leichhardt, Ludwig

MACROPHYLLA; it approached A. AMOENA, but the stem was less angular, and the phyllodia bore but one gland.

From Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia by Mitchell, Thomas