Vascular Plants
Australian Plant Name Index (APNI)
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Fabaceae Lindl.
Acacia melanoxylon R.Br. , legitimate , scientific
Brown, R. in Aiton, W.T. (1813) , Hortus Kewensis Edn. 2, 5
462
[tax. nov.]
Type:
"Nat. of Van Diemen's Island. Robert Brown, Esq."
Poiret, J.L.M. in Lamarck, J.-B.P.A. de M. de & Poiret, J.L.M. (5 November 1817) , Encyclopédie Méthodique, Botanique Suppl. 5(2)
530
[basionym]
basionym of:
Mimosa melanoxylon (Poir. nom. inval.
Loddiges, C., Loddiges, G. & Loddiges, W. (1822) , The Botanical Cabinet 7
t. 630
[secondary reference]
common name:
Black-wooded Acacia [n/a]
Meisner, C.D.F. in Lehmann, J.G.C. (ed.) (1844) , Leguminosae. Plantae Preissianae 1(1)
18
[secondary reference]
Mueller, F.J.H. von (20 October 1853) , First general report of the Government Botanist on the vegetation of the colony. Victoria - Parliamentary Papers- Votes and Proceedings of the Legislative Assembly
12
[secondary reference]
Mueller, F.J.H. von (24 October 1854) , Second general report of the Government Botanist on the vegetation of the Colony. Victoria - Parliamentary Papers- Votes and Proceedings of the Legislative Assembly
6
[secondary reference]
Bentham, G. (5 October 1864) , Flora Australiensis 2
388-389
[secondary reference]
taxonomic synonym:
Acacia arcuata Sieber ex Spreng. legitimate
Mueller, F.J.H. von (1875) , Census of the plants of Tasmania, instituted in 1875. Monthly Notices of Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 1874
78
[secondary reference]
Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882) , Systematic Census of Australian Plants
45
[secondary reference]
Rodway, L. (1903) , The Tasmanian Flora
42
[secondary reference]
Dixon, W.A. (1906) , The Plants of New South Wales
112
[secondary reference]
common name:
Hickory [n/a]
common name:
Blackwood [n/a]
Bailey, F.M. (1913) , Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants
159
[secondary reference]
common name:
Blackwood [n/a]
Sulman, F. (1914) , A Popular Guide to the Wild Flowers of New South Wales II
40
[secondary reference]
common name:
Blackwood [n/a]
Black, J.M. (1924) , Casuarinaceae - Euphorbiaceae. Flora of South Australia 2
283
[secondary reference]
common name:
Blackwood [n/a]
Ewart, A.J. (1925) , Handbook of Forest Trees for Victorian Foresters
170-173, Pl. LXXVIII
[secondary reference]
common name:
Blackwood [n/a]
Domin, K. (1926) , Beitrage zur Flora und Pflanzengeographie Australiens. Bibliotheca Botanica 22(89)
816-817
[secondary reference]
nomenclatural synonym:
Mimosa melanoxylon (Poir. nom. inval.
taxonomic synonym:
Acacia arcuata Sieber ex Spreng. legitimate
Black, J.M. (January 1948) , Casuarinaceae-Euphorbiaceae. Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 2
420, Fig. 579
[secondary reference]
common name:
Blackwood [n/a]
Curtis, W.M. (1956) , The Student's Flora of Tasmania 1
124
[secondary reference]
common name:
Blackwood [n/a]
Beadle, N.C.W., Evans, O.D. & Carolin, R.C. (1962) , Handbook of the Vascular Plants of the Sydney District and Blue Mountains
227
[secondary reference]
common name:
Blackwood [n/a]
Burbidge, N.T. & Gray, M. (1970) , Flora of the Australian Capital Territory
202, Fig. 196B.
[secondary reference]
common name:
Blackwood [n/a]
Hall, N., Johnston, R.D. & Chippendale, G.M. (1970) , Forest Trees of Australia
268-269
[secondary reference]
Hyland, B.P.M. (1971) , A key to the common rainforest trees between Townsville and Cooktown, based on leaf and bark features
39, Code 210
[secondary reference]
common name:
Black Wattle [n/a]
common name:
Wattle [n/a]
common name:
Blackwood [n/a]
Curtis, W.M. & Morris, D.I. (1975) , Angiospermae: Ranunculaceae to Myrtaceae. The Student's Flora of Tasmania Edn. 2, 1
128-129, Fig. 36C
[secondary reference]
common name:
Blackwood [n/a]
Pedley, L. (20 July 1978) , A revision of Acacia Mill. in Queensland, Part 1. Austrobaileya 1(2)
222-223
[secondary reference]
Type:
as "Port Dalrymple, Jan 1804, Brown (BM, holo)."
taxonomic synonym:
Acacia arcuata Sieber ex Spreng. legitimate
Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981) , Plants of New South Wales
149
[secondary reference]
Hyland, B.P.M. (1982) , A revised card key to rainforest trees of North Queensland
40, 119, 135, Fig. 7, Code 210
[secondary reference]
common name:
Black Wattle [n/a]
common name:
Wattle [n/a]
common name:
Blackwood [n/a]
Pedley, L. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1984) , Mimosaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 1
360-361, 368, Fig. 59B
[secondary reference]
taxonomic synonym:
Acacia arcuata Sieber ex Spreng. legitimate
common name:
Blackwood [n/a]
Cited as Acacia melanoxylon R.Br. ex Aiton
Pedley, L. (1986) , Derivation and dispersal of Acacia (Leguminosae), with particular reference to Australia, and the recognition of Senegalia and Racosperma. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 92(3)
240
[basionym]
basionym of:
Racosperma melanoxylon (Pedley legitimate
Floyd, A.G. (1989) , Rainforest Trees of Mainland South-eastern Australia
211-212 (fig.)
[secondary reference]
common name:
Mudgerabah [n/a]
common name:
Blackwood [n/a]
Morrison, D.A. & Davies, S.J. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1991) , Acacia. Flora of New South Wales 2
361-362, pl. 25
[secondary reference]
nomenclatural synonym:
Racosperma melanoxylon (Pedley legitimate
common name:
Blackwood [n/a]
Christophel, D.C. & Hyland, B.P.M. in Hyland, B.P.M. & Whiffin, T.P. (1993) , Leaf Atlas of Australian Tropical Rain Forest Trees. Australian tropical rain forest trees: an interactive identification system
10, 23, 150, pl. 88(g), Code 210
[secondary reference]
Hyland, B.P.M. & Whiffin, T.P. (1993) , Australian tropical rain forest trees: an interactive identification system 1
97, 123, 135, Code 210
[secondary reference]
common name:
Wattle [n/a]
common name:
Tasmanian Blackwood [n/a]
common name:
Mudgerabah [n/a]
common name:
Black Wattle [n/a]
common name:
Blackwood [n/a]
Hyland, B.P.M. & Whiffin, T.P. (1993) , Australian tropical rain forest trees: an interactive identification system 2
256, Code 210
[secondary reference]
Robson, Peter J. (1993) , Checklist of Australian Trees: alphabetical listings of common and scientific names
-
[secondary reference]
common name:
Black Wattle [n/a]
common name:
Sally Wattle [n/a]
common name:
Paluma Blackwood [n/a]
common name:
Mudgerabah [n/a]
common name:
Hickory [n/a]
Hyland, B.P.M., Gray, B. & Elick, R.W. in Cooper, W.E. & Cooper, W.T. (1994) , Appendix I: Provisional Species List. Fruits of the Rainforest
307
[secondary reference]
Maslin, B.R. & Cowan, R.S. (11 January 1995) , Robert Brown, the typification of his new Acacia names in edition 2 of Aiton's "Hortus Kewensis". Nuytsia 10(1)
115
[secondary reference]
Lectotype:
(here selected): "Derwent " [River, Tasmania, Feb.-July 1804], R.Brown, sheet title "Iter Australiense, 1082-5" and bearing [Britten no.] 4364 (BM, fruiting specimen); isolectotype: E.
Entwisle, T.J., Maslin, B.R., Cowan, R.S. & Court, A.B. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1996) , Mimosaceae. Flora of Victoria 3
603, Fig. 122b
[secondary reference]
nomenclatural synonym:
Racosperma melanoxylon (Pedley legitimate
common name:
Sally Wattle [n/a]
common name:
Hickory [n/a]
common name:
Blackwood [n/a]
Vernacular:
Mudgerabah (Koorie name)
Hyland, B.P.M., Whiffin, T.P., Christophel, D.C., Gray, B., Elick, R.W. & Ford, A.J. (1999) , Australian tropical rain forest trees and shrubs. Australian tropical rain forest trees and shrubs
73
[secondary reference]
Williams, K.A.W. (1999) , Native Plants of Queensland 4
28
[secondary reference]
common name:
Mudgerabah [n/a]
common name:
Blackwood [n/a]
Cowan, R.S. & Maslin, B.R. in Orchard, A.E. & Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (2001) , Flora of Australia 11B
141-142, Plate 17, Fig. 30D-F, Map 202
[secondary reference]
Type:
Derwent R., Tas., Feb.-July 1804, R. Brown , sheet titled ‘Iter Australiense, 1802-5' and bearing [Britten no.] 4364 ; lecto: BM (fruiting specimen), fide B.R.Maslin & R.S.Cowan, Nuytsia 10: 115 (1995); isolecto: E; paralecto: BM, DBN, E.
nomenclatural synonym:
Mimosa melanoxylon (Poir. nom. inval.
nomenclatural synonym:
Racosperma melanoxylon (Pedley legitimate
taxonomic synonym:
Acacia melanoxylum (Poir. [default]
taxonomic synonym:
Acacia arcuata Sieber ex Spreng. legitimate
taxonomic synonym:
Acacia melanoxylon var. obtusifolia Ser. legitimate
taxonomic synonym:
Acacia melanoxylon var. arcuata (Sieber ex Ser. legitimate
taxonomic synonym:
Acacia melanoxylon f. frutescens Hochr. legitimate
common name:
Mudgerabah [n/a]
common name:
Sally Wattle [n/a]
common name:
Hickory [n/a]
common name:
Blackwood [n/a]
Cowan, R.S. in Orchard, A.E. & Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (2001) , Flora of Australia 11B
66
[misapplied]
misapplied to:
Acacia cochlearis (H.L.Wendl. legitimate
by Meisner, C.D.F. in Lehmann, J.G.C. (ed.) (1844) , Leguminosae. Plantae Preissianae 1(1)
Maslin, B.R. (9 July 2001) , Wattle - Acacias of Australia
-
[secondary reference]
nomenclatural synonym:
Mimosa melanoxylon (Poir. nom. inval.
nomenclatural synonym:
Racosperma melanoxylon (Pedley legitimate
taxonomic synonym:
Acacia melanoxylon var. obtusifolia Ser. legitimate
taxonomic synonym:
Acacia melanoxylon var. arcuata (Sieber ex Ser. legitimate
taxonomic synonym:
Acacia melanoxylon f. frutescens Hochr. legitimate
common name:
Mudgerabah [n/a]
common name:
Sally Wattle [n/a]
common name:
Hickory [n/a]
common name:
Blackwood [n/a]
Kodela, P.G. & Harden, G.J. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (2002) , Acacia. Flora of New South Wales Revised Edition 2
427
[secondary reference]
nomenclatural synonym:
Racosperma melanoxylon (Pedley legitimate
common name:
Blackwood [n/a]
Wheeler, J.R., Marchant, N.G. & Lewington, M. (2002) , Dicotyledons. Flora of the South West 2
670
[secondary reference]
common name:
Blackwood [n/a]
Cooper, W.E. & Cooper, W.T. (2004) , Fruits of the Australian Tropical Rainforest
303
[secondary reference]
nomenclatural synonym:
Racosperma melanoxylon (Pedley legitimate
common name:
Hickory [n/a]
common name:
Black Sally [n/a]
common name:
Black Wattle [n/a]
common name:
Tasmanian Blackwood [n/a]
Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2006) , Australian Plant Census
-
[secondary reference]
nomenclatural synonym:
Acacia melanoxylum (Poir. [default]
nomenclatural synonym:
Mimosa melanoxylon (Poir. nom. inval.
nomenclatural synonym:
Acacia melanoxylon R.Br. var. melanoxylon legitimate
nomenclatural synonym:
Acacia melanoxylon R.Br. f. melanoxylon legitimate
nomenclatural synonym:
Racosperma melanoxylon (Pedley legitimate
taxonomic synonym:
Acacia arcuata Sieber ex Spreng. legitimate
taxonomic synonym:
Acacia melanoxylon var. obtusifolia Ser. legitimate
taxonomic synonym:
Acacia melanoxylon var. arcuata (Sieber ex Ser. legitimate
taxonomic synonym:
Acacia melanoxylon f. frutescens Hochr. legitimate
APC Dist.:
WA (naturalised), SA, Qld, NSW, ACT, Vic, Tas
Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2006) , Australian Plant Census
-
[misapplied]
misapplied to:
Acacia cochlearis (H.L.Wendl. legitimate
by Meisner, C.D.F. in Lehmann, J.G.C. (ed.) (1844) , Leguminosae. Plantae Preissianae 1(1)
de Salas, M.F. & Baker, M.L. (2016) , Tasmanian vascular plant census. A Census of the Vascular Plants of Tasmania, including Macquarie Island
55, 56
[secondary reference]
nomenclatural synonym:
Racosperma melanoxylon (Pedley legitimate
Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (7 July 2021) , Australian Plant Census
-
[misapplied]
misapplied to:
Acacia cochlearis (H.L.Wendl. legitimate
by Meisner, C.D.F. in Lehmann, J.G.C. (ed.) (1844) , Leguminosae. Plantae Preissianae 1(1)
