Taxon: Acacia longifolia (Andrews) Willd.

See also subordinate taxa:

• Acacia longifolia subsp. longifolia (no accessions)
• Acacia longifolia subsp. sophorae (1 accessions)

Common names:

• coastal wattle   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English
  
• golden-rods   (Source: Hort F SE Aust ) – English
  
• longleaf wattle   (Source: Weeds SAfr 2001 ) – English
  
• sallow wattle   (Source: Hort F SE Aust ) – English
  
• Sydney golden wattle   (Source: Hortus 3 ) – English
  
• langblaarwattel   (Source: Weeds SAfr 2001 ) – Afrikaans
  
• långbladsakacia   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

More:

see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Environmental: erosion control   (fide Leg ErWild)
  
• Environmental: ornamental   (fide Leg ErWild)
  
• Weed   (fide Invasive Pl Spec; Weeds SAfr 2001)
  

Distributional range:

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

• AFRICA
  Southern Africa: South Africa [s.]
• AUSTRALASIA
  Australia: Australia - Western Australia
  New Zealand: New Zealand
• EUROPE
  Southwestern Europe: France
• NORTHERN AMERICA
  Southwestern U.S.A.: United States - California
• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Brazil: Brazil
  Southern South America: Argentina; Uruguay

• ASIA-TROPICAL
  Indian Subcontinent: Sri Lanka
  Malesia: Indonesia - Java
• EUROPE
  Northern Europe: United Kingdom [s.w.]
• also cultivated elsewhere

References:

• Acevedo-Rodríguez, P. & M. T. Strong. Flora of the West Indies (on-line resource).
• Aldén, B., S. Ryman & M. Hjertson. 2009. Våra kulturväxters namn - ursprung och användning. Formas, Stockholm (Handbook on Swedish cultivated and utility plants, their names and origin).
• Backer, C. A. & R. C. Bakhuizen van den Brink, Jr. 1963–1968. Flora of Java.
• Dassanayake, M. D. & F. R. Fosberg, eds. 1980–. A revised handbook to the flora of Ceylon.
• Euro+Med Editorial Committee. Euro+Med Plantbase: the information resource for Euro-Mediterranean plant diversity (on-line resource).
• Germishuizen, G. & N. L. Meyer, eds. 2003. Plants of southern Africa: an annotated checklist. Strelitzia 14.
• Graham, E. H. 1941. Legumes for erosion control and wildlife. USDA Misc. Publ. 412.
• Greuter, W. et al., eds. 1984–. Med-Checklist.
• Hansen, A. & P. Sunding. 1993. Flora of Macaronesia: checklist of vascular plants, ed. 4. Sommerfeltia vol. 17.
• 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.
• Hnatiuk, R. J. 1990. Census of Australian vascular plants. Australian Flora and Fauna Series No. 11.
• Instituto de Botánica Darwinion. 2008. Flora del Conosur. Catálogo de las plantas vasculares.
• Integrated Botanical Information System (IBIS). Australian plant common name database (on-line resource).
• Isely, D. 1998. Native and naturalized Leguminosae (Fabaceae) of the United States (exclusive of Alaska and Hawaii).
• Jessop, J. P. & H. R. Toelken, eds. 1986. Flora of South Australia, ed. 4.
• Krüssmann, G. 1984. Manual of cultivated broad-leaved trees and shrubs (English translation of Handbuch der Laubgehölze. 1976).
• 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. 6:73.
• Nelson, C. H. N. 2008. Catálogo de las plantas vasculares de Honduras.
• Pedley, L. 1978. A revision of Acacia Mill. in Queensland. Austrobaileya 1:164,166. [mentions and accepts].
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
• Rico-Arce, Maria de Lourdes. 2007. American species of Acacia.
• Simmons, M. 1988. Acacias of Australia. 2:258.
• Spencer, R. 1995–2002. Horticultural flora of southeastern Australia.
• Walters, S. M. et al., eds. 1986–. European garden flora.
• Weber, E. 2003. Invasive plant species of the world: a reference guide to environmental weeds.
• Western Australian Herbarium. FloraBase²: the Western Australian flora (on-line resource).
• Willis, J. H. 1970–1972. A handbook to plants in Victoria.

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Acacia longifolia.

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

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Acacia longifolia.

Synonyms:

• Acacia longifolia var. sophorae (Labill.) F. Muell. ex Benth. [≡ Acacia longifolia subsp. sophorae]
  (previously associated with 2 accessions)
• Acacia sophorae (Labill.) R. Br. [≡ Acacia longifolia subsp. sophorae]
  (previously associated with 3 accessions)
• Mimosa longifolia Andrews [≡ Acacia longifolia subsp. longifolia]
  
• Mimosa sophorae Labill. [≡ Acacia longifolia subsp. sophorae]
  
• Racosperma sophorae (Labill.) Mart. [≡ Acacia longifolia subsp. sophorae]
  

Check other web resources for Acacia longifolia (Andrews) Willd.:

• 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 del Conosur: Catálogo de las Plantas Vasculares del Conosur
• AVH: Australia's Virtual Herbarium
• SIBIS: South African National Biodiversity Institute's (SANBI) Integrated Biodiversity System
• 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
• ICRA: International Cultivar Registration Authority (on-line resource). for Acacia longifolia 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:

• 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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