Taxon: Acacia pycnantha Benth.

Common names:

• Australian golden wattle   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English
  
• broadleaf wattle   (Source: Leg WorldEc ) – English
  
• golden wattle   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  
• South Australian golden wattle   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English
  
• gouewattel   (Source: Weeds SAfr 2001 ) – Afrikaans
  
• acacia doré   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French
  
• Goldakazie   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – German
  

More:

see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Environmental: ornamental   (also Australia's national flower fide Trop Leg)
  
• Weed   (fide Invasive Pl Spec; Weeds SAfr 2001)
  

Distributional range:

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

• AFRICA
  Southern Africa: South Africa
• NORTHERN AMERICA
  United States [w.]

• also cultivated

References:

• Burbidge, N. T. & M. Gray. 1970. Flora of the Australian Capital Territory.
• Duke, J. A. 1981. Handbook of legumes of world economic importance.
• Encke, F. et al. 1984. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 13. Auflage.
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop (on-line resource).
• Germishuizen, G. & N. L. Meyer, eds. 2003. Plants of southern Africa: an annotated checklist. Strelitzia 14.
• 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).
• 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. 6:99.
• National Academy of Sciences. 1979. Tropical legumes: resources for the future.
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
• Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants.
• Simmons, M. 1981. Acacias of Australia. 164.
• Weber, E. 2003. Invasive plant species of the world: a reference guide to environmental weeds.
• Whibley, D. J. E. 1980. The Acacias of South Australia. 128.
• Willis, J. H. 1970–1972. A handbook to plants in Victoria.

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Acacia pycnantha.

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

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Acacia pycnantha.

Check other web resources for Acacia pycnantha Benth.:

• 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
• 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
• ICRA: International Cultivar Registration Authority (on-line resource). for Acacia pycnantha 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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