Taxon: Acacia koa A. Gray

Common names:

• koa acacia   (Source: Names Beetle ) – English
  
• koa   (Source: Hortus 3 ) – Hawaiian
  

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see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Animal food: forage   (fide Food Feed Crops US)
  
• Materials: wood   (timber fide Ency WTimber)
  

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View ethnobotanical data from Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

View ethnobotanical data from Moerman's Native American Ethnobotany Database

Distributional range:

• PACIFIC
  North-Central Pacific: United States - Hawaii

References:

• Agroforestry.net. The traditional tree initiative: species profiles for Pacific Island agroforestry - on-line resource. (Trad Tree Init)
• Beetle, A. A. 1970. Recommended plant names. Univ. Wyoming Agr. Exp. Sta. Res. J. 31. (Names Beetle)
• Boutelje, J. B. 1980. Encyclopedia of world timbers, names and technical literature. (Ency WTimber)
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop - on-line resource. (Ecocrop)
• John, H. St. 1980. Pacific Sci. 33:357–367.
• Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third. (Hortus 3)
• Markle, G. M. et al., eds. 1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2. (Food Feed Crops US)
• Pedley, L. 1975. Contr. Queensland Herb. 18.
• 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. 92:248. [= Racosperma koa (A. Gray) Pedley].
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) - on-line resource. (Pl Names)
• St. John, H. 1973. List and summary of the flowering plants in the Hawaiian islands. (L Hawaii)
• Wagner, W. L. et al. 1990. Manual of the flowering plants of Hawai'i. (F Hawaii)
• Wagner, W. L. et al. Flora of the Hawaiian Islands - on-line resource. (F Hawaii Online)

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Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Acacia koa.

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

Synonyms:

• (=) Acacia heterophylla var. latifolia Benth.
  
• (=) Acacia kauaiensis Hillebr.
  
• (=) Acacia koa var. hawaiiensis Rock
  (previously associated with 1 accession)
• (=) Acacia koa var. lanaiensis Rock
  
• (=) Acacia koa var. latifolia (Benth.) H. St. John
  
• (≡) Racosperma koa (A. Gray) Pedley
  

Check other databases for Acacia koa A. Gray:

• PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
• ILDIS: International Legume Database & Information Service
• Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
• 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:

• Seed: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image
• GRIN nodulation data

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• 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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