Taxon: Acacia melanoxylon R. Br.

Common names:

• Australian blackwood   (Source: Hortus 3 ) – English
  
• black sally   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English
  
• black wattle   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English
  
• blackwood   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  
• blackwood acacia   (Source: Hortus 3 ) – English
  
• Paluma blackwood   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English
  
• sally wattle   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English
  
• silver wattle   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English
  
• Tasmanian blackwood   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English
  
• Australiese swarthout   (Source: Weeds SAfr 2001 ) – Afrikaans
  
• svartvedsakacia   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

More:

see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Environmental: ornamental   (fide Leg ErWild)
  
• Environmental: revegetator   (fide Leg ErWild)
  
• Materials: wood   (timber fide Ency WTimber)
  
• Weed: potential seed contaminant   (fide Rep NCEPPC, Invasive Pl Spec; Weeds SAfr 2001)
  

More:

View phytochemical data from Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Distributional range:

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

• AFRICA
  Macaronesia: Portugal - Azores
  Northeast Tropical Africa: Ethiopia
  East Tropical Africa: Kenya; Tanzania
  South Tropical Africa: Zimbabwe
  Southern Africa: Lesotho; South Africa; Swaziland
  Western Indian Ocean: Mauritius; Reunion
• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Caucasus: Georgia
• ASIA-TROPICAL
  Indian Subcontinent: India
• EUROPE
  East Europe: Moldova
  Southeastern Europe: Italy
  Southwestern Europe: France; Portugal; Spain
• NORTHERN AMERICA
  Southeastern U.S.A.: United States - Florida
  Southwestern U.S.A.: United States - California
  Mexico
• PACIFIC
  North-Central Pacific: United States - Hawaii
• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Northern South America: Venezuela
  Western South America: Bolivia; Colombia; Peru
  Southern South America: Argentina; Chile; Uruguay

• AFRICA
  Northeast Tropical Africa: Eritrea; Ethiopia [s.]
  East Tropical Africa: Tanzania
  West-Central Tropical Africa: Burundi; Rwanda
  South Tropical Africa: Zimbabwe
  Southern Africa: South Africa
  Western Indian Ocean: Madagascar; Mauritius
• AUSTRALASIA
  New Zealand: New Zealand
• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Brazil: Brazil

References:

• PROTABASE, the information base of PROTA (Plant Resources of Tropical Africa) (on-line resource).
• 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).
• Boutelje, J. B. 1980. Encyclopedia of world timbers, names and technical literature.
• Burbidge, N. T. & M. Gray. 1970. Flora of the Australian Capital Territory.
• Campbell, F. T., ed. 1995. Report of National Coalition of Exotic Plant Pest Councils. (unpublished draft)
• Conant, P. et al. 1997. Appendix. Selected plant species interfering with resource management goals in North American natural areas. Pp. 255–267 in: Luken, J. O. & J. W. Thieret, eds., Assessment and management of plant invasions.
• Curtis, W. M. & D. I. Morris. 1956–. The student's flora of Tasmania.
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop (on-line resource).
• Graham, E. H. 1941. Legumes for erosion control and wildlife. USDA Misc. Publ. 412.
• 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.
• Integrated Botanical Information System (IBIS). Australian plant common name database (on-line resource).
• International Legume Database & Information Service. International Legume Database and Information Service (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.
• 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. 6:78.
• Maslin, B. R. & R. S. Cowan. 1995. Robert Brown, the typification of his new Acacia names in edition 2 of Aiton's "Hortus Kewensis". Nuytsia 10:115.
• Nasir, E. & S. I. Ali, eds. 1970–. Flora of [West] Pakistan. [cultivated].
• Pedley, L. 1978. A revision of Acacia Mill. in Queensland. Austrobaileya 1:222.
• Pedley, L. 1987. Racosperma Martius (Leguminosae: Mimosoideae) in Queensland: a checklist. Austrobaileya 2:352. [= Racosperma melanoxylon (R. Br.) Mart.].
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
• Timberlake, J. et al. 1999. Field guide to the acacias of Zimbabwe.
• Villaseñor, J. L. & F. J. Espinoza-Garcia. 2004. The alien flowering plants of Mexico. Diversity & Distrib. 10:113–123.
• Wagner, W. L. et al. Flora of the Hawaiian Islands (on-line resource).
• Weber, E. 2003. Invasive plant species of the world: a reference guide to environmental weeds.
• Willis, J. H. 1970–1972. A handbook to plants in Victoria.

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Acacia melanoxylon.

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

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Acacia melanoxylon.

Synonyms:

• (≡) Racosperma melanoxylon (R. Br.) Mart.
  

Check other web resources for Acacia melanoxylon R. Br.:

• 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
• On-line Flora of Zimbabwe
• 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
• PROTABASE: Plant Resources of Tropical Africa's (PROTA's) online resource
• ICRA: International Cultivar Registration Authority (on-line resource). for Acacia melanoxylon 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:

• GRIN Images of germplasm accessions.
• 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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