Taxon: Acacia mearnsii De Wild.

A declared aquatic or terrestrial noxious weed and/or noxious-weed seed in these U.S. states (see state noxious weed lists), with links to state information or web documents:

HI*°.

ªAquatic.

*Terrestrial.

°In seed.

Link to noxious weed information from

Common names:

• black wattle   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  
• green wattle   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English
  
• late black wattle   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English
  
• tan wattle   (Source: Food Feed Crops US ) – English
  
• swartwattel   (Source: Weeds SAfr 2001 ) – Afrikaans
  
• acacia noir   (Source: Leg WorldEc ) – French
  
• Gerberakazie   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – German
  
• acácia-negra   (Source: Leg WorldEc ) – Portuguese
  
• acacia negra   (Source: Leg WorldEc ) – Spanish
  

More:

see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Bee plants: honey production   (fide F ChinaEng)
  
• Environmental: erosion control   (fide Pl Res SEAs 3:41-42. 1991)
  
• Environmental: ornamental   (fide Pl Res SEAs 3:41-42. 1991)
  
• Environmental: shade/shelter   (fide Pl Res SEAs 3:41-42. 1991)
  
• Environmental: soil improver   (fide Pl Res SEAs 3:41-42. 1991)
  
• Fuels: charcoal   (fide Pl Res SEAs 3:41-42. 1991)
  
• Fuels: fuelwood   (fide Pl Res SEAs 3:41-42. 1991)
  
• Materials: fiber   (fide Pl Res SEAs 3:41-42. 1991)
  
• Materials: tannin/dyestuff   (fide Pl Res SEAs 3:41-42. 1991)
  
• Materials: wood   (fide Pl Res SEAs 3:41-42. 1991)
  
• Weed   (fide Plant Invasion; Weeds SAfr 2001)
  

Distributional range:

• AUSTRALASIA
  Australia: Australia - Austr. Capital Terr., New South Wales [s.e.], South Australia [s.e.], Tasmania, Victoria

• AFRICA
  Macaronesia: Portugal - Azores; Spain - Canary Islands
  Southern Africa: South Africa
• AUSTRALASIA
  New Zealand: New Zealand
• EUROPE
  Europe [s.]
• PACIFIC
  North-Central Pacific: United States - Hawaii
• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Caribbean: West Indies

• AFRICA
  East Tropical Africa: Kenya
  South Tropical Africa: Zimbabwe
  Southern Africa: South Africa
• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  China: China [s.]
  Eastern Asia: Japan; Taiwan
• ASIA-TROPICAL
  Indian Subcontinent: India; Sri Lanka
  Malesia: Indonesia; Malaysia; Philippines
• AUSTRALASIA
  New Zealand: New Zealand
• EUROPE
  Europe [s.]
• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Caribbean: Jamaica; West Indies
  Brazil: Brazil
  South America

References:

• PROTABASE, the information base of PROTA (Plant Resources of Tropical Africa) (on-line resource).
• Acevedo-Rodríguez, P. & M. T. Strong. Flora of the West Indies (on-line resource).
• Brenan, J. P. M. & R. Melville. 1960. The Latin name of the black wattle. Kew Bull. 14:37.
• Chinese Academy of Sciences. 1959–. Flora reipublicae popularis sinicae.
• Conant, P. et al. 1997. Appendix. Selected plant species interfering with resource management goals in North American natural areas. In: Luken, J. O. & J. W. Thieret, eds., Assessment and management of plant invasions. 255–267.
• Doran, J. C. & J. W. Turnbull, eds. 1997. Australian trees and shrubs: species for land rehabilitation and farm planting in the tropics. Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research.
• Duke, J. A. 1981. Handbook of legumes of world economic importance.
• Encke, F. et al. 1984. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 13. Auflage.
• Fagg, C. W. & J. L. Stewart. 1994. The value of Acacia and Prosopis in arid and semi-arid environments. J. Arid Environm. 27:12.
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop (on-line resource).
• George, A. S., ed. 1980–. Flora of Australia.
• Germishuizen, G. & N. L. Meyer, eds. 2003. Plants of southern Africa: an annotated checklist. Strelitzia 14.
• Hanelt, P., ed. 2001. Mansfeld's encyclopedia of agricultural and horticultural crops. Volumes 1-6.
• Henderson, L. 2001. Alien weeds and invasive plants: a complete guide to declared weeds and invaders in South Africa. Plant Protection Research Institute, Handbook 12.
• Integrated Botanical Information System (IBIS). Australian plant common name database (on-line resource).
• Lemmens, R. H. M. J. & N. Wulijarni-Soetjipto, eds. 1991. Dye and tannin-producing plants. In: Faridah Hanum, I. & L. J. G. van der Maesen, eds., Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA). 3:41–45.
• Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third.
• Markle, G. M. et al., eds. 1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2.
• Maslin, B. R. & L. Pedley. 1982. The distribution of Acacia (Leguminosae: Mimosoideae) in Australia. Part 1. Species distribution maps. Res. Notes W. Austral. Herb. 6:77.
• Nasir, E. & S. I. Ali, eds. 1970–. Flora of [West] Pakistan. [introduced].
• Pedley, L. 1986. Derivation and dispersal of Acacia (Leguminosae), with particular reference to Australia, and the recognition of Senegalia and Racosperma. Bot. J. Linn. Soc. 92:249. [= Racosperma mearnsii (De Wild.) Pedley].
• Pedley, L. 1987. Racosperma Martius (Leguminosae: Mimosoideae) in New Zealand: a checklist. Austrobaileya 2:358. [= Racosperma mearnsii (De Wild.) Pedley].
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
• Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants.
• Seed Regulatory and Testing Branch, Agricultural Marketing Service, U.S.D.A. 1999. State noxious-weed seed requirements recognized in the administration of the Federal Seed Act.
• Timberlake, J. et al. 1999. Field guide to the acacias of Zimbabwe.
• Verdcourt, B. 1979. A manual of New Guinea legumes. [cult. & natzd.].
• Weber, E. 2003. Invasive plant species of the world: a reference guide to environmental weeds.
• Willis, J. H. 1970–1972. A handbook to plants in Victoria.
• Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994–. Flora of China (English edition).

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Acacia mearnsii.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Acacia mearnsii.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Acacia mearnsii.

Synonyms:

• (=) Acacia decurrens var. mollis Ker Gawl.
  
• (=) Acacia decurrens var. mollissima auct., non Willd.
  
• (=) Acacia mollissima auct.
  
• (≡) Racosperma mearnsii (De Wild.) Pedley
  

Check other web resources for Acacia mearnsii De Wild.:

• PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
• BONAP: North American Plant Atlas of the Biota of North America Program
• Flora of China: Online version from Harvard University
• AVH: Australia's Virtual Herbarium
• ABRS: Australian Biological Resources Study Flora of Australia online
• SIBIS: South African National Biodiversity Institute's (SANBI) Integrated Biodiversity System
• On-line Flora of Zimbabwe
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• ILDIS: World Database of Legumes
• Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
• PROTABASE: Plant Resources of Tropical Africa's (PROTA's) online resource
• ICRA: International Cultivar Registration Authority (on-line resource). for Acacia mearnsii cultivars
• ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
• Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.

Images or nodulation data:

• GRIN Images of germplasm accessions.
• Seed: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image
• GRIN nodulation data

More:

• Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
• Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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