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Taxon: Acacia auriculiformis A. Cunn. ex Benth.

Genus: Acacia
Family: Fabaceae (alt. Leguminosae) subfamily: Mimosoideae tribe: Acacieae. Also placed in: Mimosaceae
Nomen number: 781
Place of publication: London J. Bot. 1:377. 1842
Name verified on: 08-Mar-1989 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last updated: 01-Nov-1995
Species priority site is: Southern Regional PI Station (S9).
Accessions: 2 in National Plant Germplasm System.
  • all available ) NPGS accessions ) or .
  • all available ) NPGS accessions by country.


Common names:

  • Darwin black wattle   (Source: Aust TreesSh ) – English
  • ear-leaf acacia   (Source: Rep NCEPPC ) – English
  • ear-pod wattle   (Source: Aust TreesSh ) – English
  • northern black wattle   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
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Economic importance:

  • Environmental: agroforestry; revegetator; shade/shelter; soil improver   (fide Trop Leg)
  • Fuels: potential as fuelwood   (fide Firewood Cr)
  • Materials: fiber   (as a source of wood pulp fide Trop Leg)
  • Weed   (fide Rep NCEPPC)

Distributional range:

      Native: (links to other web resources are provided for some distributions)
  • ASIA-TROPICAL
    Malesia: Indonesia - Irian Jaya; Papua New Guinea
  • AUSTRALASIA
    Australia: Australia - Northern Territory [n.], Queensland [n.]

References:

  • Campbell, F. T., ed. 1995. Report of National Coalition of Exotic Plant Pest Councils. (unpublished draft) (Rep NCEPPC)
  • Chinese Academy of Sciences. 1959–. Flora reipublicae popularis sinicae. (F China)
  • Cubero, J. I. & M. T. Moreno, dirs. 1983. Leguminosas de grano. (Leg Grano) [mentions].
  • 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. (Aust TreesSh)
  • Faridah Hanum, I. & L. J. G. van der Maesen, eds. 1997. Auxiliary plants. Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA). (Pl Res SEAs) 11:52–56.
  • Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop - on-line resource. (Ecocrop)
  • Maslin, B. R. & L. Pedley. 1982. The distribution of Acacia (Leguminosae: Mimosoideae) in Australia. Part 1. Species distribution maps. Res. Notes W. Austral. Herb. 6:15.
  • Nasir, E. & S. I. Ali, eds. 1970–. Flora of [West] Pakistan. (F Pak) [cult.].
  • National Academy of Sciences. 1979. Tropical legumes: resources for the future. (Trop Leg)
  • National Academy of Sciences. 1980. Firewood crops. Shrub and tree species for energy production. (Firewood Cr)
  • Pedley, L. 1978. A revision of Acacia Mill. in Queensland. Austrobaileya 1:172.
  • 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. 92:247. [= Racosperma auriculiforme (A. Cunn. ex Benth.) Pedley].
  • Pettigrew, C. J. & L. Watson. 1975. Austral. J. Bot. 23:840.
  • Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) - on-line resource. (Pl Names)
  • Verdcourt, B. 1979. A manual of New Guinea legumes. (Leg New Guinea)
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Synonyms:


Check other databases for Acacia auriculiformis A. Cunn. ex Benth.:

  • AVH: Australia's Virtual Herbarium Map Display Interface
  • 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:

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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National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland.
URL: http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?781 (09 February 2010)

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