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Taxon: Acacia acuminata Benth.

Genus: Acacia
Family: Fabaceae (alt. Leguminosae) subfamily: Mimosoideae tribe: Acacieae. Also placed in: Mimosaceae
Nomen number: 767
Place of publication: London J. Bot. 1:373. 1842
Name verified on: 09-Nov-1987 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last updated: 24-Feb-1997
No species priority site assigned.
Accessions: 1 in National Plant Germplasm System.
  • all available ) NPGS accessions. or .
  • all available ) NPGS accessions by country.
  • Check PlantSearch database of Botanic Gardens Conservation International for possible non-NPGS germplasm.


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Common names:

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Economic importance:

  • Environmental: potential for agroforestry   (fide Aust Syst Bot 16:49-55. 2003)
  • Materials: wood   (fide R. B. Miller, pers. comm. 1996)

Distributional range:

      Native:
  • AUSTRALASIA
    Australia: Australia - New South Wales, South Australia, Western Australia [s.]

References:

  • Bentham, G. 1863–1878. Flora australiensis.
  • Broadhurst, L. & D. Coates. 2002. Genetic diversity within and divergence between rare and geographically widespread taxa of the Acacia acuminata Benth. (Mimosaceae) complex. Heredity 88:250–257.
  • Byrne, M. & L. Broadhurst. 2003. Genetic diversity and the utilisation of Acacia species complexes in agroforestry in Western Australia. Austral. Syst. Bot. 16:49–55.
  • Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop (on-line resource).
  • George, A. S., ed. 1980–. Flora of Australia.
  • Green, J. W. 1985. Census of the vascular plants of Western Australia.
  • Hnatiuk, R. J. 1990. Census of Australian vascular plants. Australian Flora and Fauna Series No. 11.
  • Integrated Botanical Information System (IBIS). Australian plant common name database (on-line resource).
  • Lazarides, M. & B. Hince. 1993. CSIRO Handbook of Economic Plants of Australia.
  • Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third.
  • Maslin, B. R. & L. Pedley. 1982. The distribution of Acacia (Leguminosae: Mimosoideae) in Australia. Part 1. Species distribution maps. Res. Notes W. Austral. Herb. 6:7.
  • Miller, R. B. 1996. pers. comm. [re. common names].
  • Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
  • Simmons, M. 1981. Acacias of Australia. 256.
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Synonyms:


Check other web resources for Acacia acuminata Benth.:

  • AVH: Australia's Virtual Herbarium
  • ABRS: Australian Biological Resources Study Flora of Australia online
  • ILDIS: World Database of Legumes
  • 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.

Images or nodulation data:

More:
  • Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
  • Google 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.

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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?767 (19 June 2013)

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