Taxon: Acacia paradoxa DC.

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:

CA*.

ªAquatic.

*Terrestrial.

°In seed.

Link to noxious weed information from

Common names:

• acacia-hedge   (Source: Noxweed Aust ) – English
  
• kangaroo wattle   (Source: Weeds SAfr 2001 ) – English
  
• kangaroo-thorn   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  
• prickly acacia   (Source: Noxweed Aust ) – English
  

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see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Environmental: boundary/barrier/support; ornamental   (fide Dict Gard)
  
• Weed: also potential seed contaminant   (fide Noxweed Aust; Weeds SAfr 2001)
  

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Distributional range:

      Native: (links to other web resources are provided for some distributions)

• AUSTRALASIA
  Australia: Australia - New South Wales [e.], Queensland [s.e.], South Australia [e.], Victoria, Western Australia [s.w.]

      Naturalized: (links to other web resources are provided for some distributions)

• NORTHERN AMERICA (Check conservation status in U.S. & Canada in NatureServe Explorer database)
  Southwestern U.S.A.: United States - California [s.w.]

References:

• Graham, E. H. 1941. Legumes for erosion control and wildlife. USDA Misc. Publ. 412. (Leg ErWild)
• Green, J. W. 1985. Census of the vascular plants of Western Australia. (L WAust)
• 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. (Weeds SAfr 2001)
• Isely, D. 1998. Native and naturalized Leguminosae (Fabaceae) of the United States (exclusive of Alaska and Hawaii). (Leg US)
• Lazarides, M. & B. Hince. 1993. CSIRO Handbook of Economic Plants of Australia. (Econ Pl Aust)
• Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third. (Hortus 3) [= A. armata var. angustifolia Benth.].
• Maslin, B. R. & L. Pedley. 1982. The distribution of Acacia (Leguminosae: Mimosoideae) in Australia. Part 1. Species distribution maps. Res. Notes W. Austral. Herb. 6:90.
• Parsons, W. T. & E. G. Cuthbertson. 1992. Noxious weeds of Australia. (Noxweed Aust)
• Pedley, L. 1980. A revision of Acacia Mill. in Queensland (concluded). Austrobaileya 1:250.
• Pedley, L. 1987. Racosperma Martius (Leguminosae: Mimosoideae) in Queensland: a checklist. Austrobaileya 2:353. [= Racosperma paradoxum (DC.) Mart.].
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) - on-line resource. (Pl Names)

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Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Acacia paradoxa.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Acacia paradoxa. Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Synonyms:

• (=) Acacia armata R. Br.
  (previously associated with 6 accessions)
• (≡) Acacia undulata Spin
  (previously associated with 1 accession)
• (≡) Racosperma paradoxum (DC.) Mart.
  

Check other databases for Acacia paradoxa DC.:

• AVH: Australia's Virtual Herbarium Map Display Interface
• PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• ILDIS: International Legume Database & Information Service
• Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
• ICRA: International Cultivar Registration Authority for Acacia paradoxa 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.
  Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Images or nodulation data:

• GRIN Images of germplasm accessions.
• Disseminule drawings: U.S. National Seed Herbarium drawing
• Embryo drawing: U.S. National Seed Herbarium drawing
• 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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Cite as:
USDA, ARS, National Genetic Resources Program.
Germplasm Resources Information Network - (GRIN) [Online Database].
National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland.
URL: http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?313094 (09 February 2010)

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