Verticordia decussata is a shrub that is endemic to the Northern Territory

Northern Territory

The Northern Territory is a federal territory of Australia, occupying much of the centre of the mainland continent, as well as the central northern regions...

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The description of the species was first published in Austrobaileya in 1977.

The shrub is able to regrow after bushfire.

The distribution range is within the Northern Territory and includes Kakadu

Kakadu National Park

Kakadu National Park is in the Northern Territory of Australia, 171 km southeast of Darwin.Kakadu National Park is located within the Alligator Rivers Region of the Northern Territory of Australia. It covers an area of , extending nearly 200 kilometres from north to south and over 100 kilometres...

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Verticordia decussata is associated with Micraira multinervia in sparse shrub communities and Calatrix species in open woodland.

The species is classified as being in the section

Section (botany)

In botany, a section is a taxonomic rank below the genus, but above the species. The subgenus, if present, is higher than the section, and the rank of series, if present, is below the section. Sections are typically used to help organise very large genera, which may have hundreds of species...

, Verticordia sect. Tropica

Verticordia sect. Tropica

Verticordia sect. Tropica is a section of Verticordia that describes three species; outliers in the distribution range of the genus...

, along with two other outlying species of the otherwise West Australian

Western Australia

Western Australia is a state of Australia, occupying the entire western third of the Australian continent. It is bounded by the Indian Ocean to the north and west, the Great Australian Bight and Indian Ocean to the south, the Northern Territory to the north-east and South Australia to the south-east...

 genus; Verticordia cunninghamii

Verticordia cunninghamii

Verticordia cunninghamii is a large shrub or small tree occurring in the north of Western Australia and extending into the Northern Territory. The species is named for Allan Cunningham, who gathered the type collection at Roe River in the Kimberley region on the 14 December 1820...

and Verticordia verticillata

Verticordia verticillata

Verticordia verticillata is a shrub or small tree occurring in the north of Western Australia and extending into the Northern Territory. The species is named for verticillatus, the Latin term for whorled, for the leaf arrangement that distinguishes it from its cogenor, Verticordia cunninghamii...

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