Vascular Plants Australian Plant Name Index (APNI)

Showing Acacia elachantha
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Acacia elachantha Maslin & M.W.McDonald , legitimate, scientific
McDonald, M.W. & Maslin, B.R. (29 August 1997), A reappraisal of Acacia cowleana and allied taxa, including the description of a new species, A. elachantha, from the tropical dry-zone of Australia. Australian Systematic Botany 10(3): 311, Figs. 3, 4 (map) [tax. nov.]
  • Type: 14 km W of the Cuddapan turn-off along Birdsville-Windorah road (71.8 km E of Betoota), Queensland, 3 July 1995, M. McDonald & P.A. Butcher PAB 57 (holo: PERTH; iso: BRI).
McDonald, M.W. in Orchard, A.E. & Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (2001), Flora of Australia 11B: 179-180, Fig. 38A, Map 251 [secondary reference]
misapplication: Acacia cowleana Tate legitimate by Pedley, L. (20 July 1978), A revision of Acacia Mill. in Queensland, Part 1. Austrobaileya 1(2): 171-172 misapplication: Acacia cowleana Tate legitimate by Maslin, B.R. & Thomson, L.A.J. (18 December 1992), Re-appraisal of the taxonomy of Acacia holosericea, including the description of a new species, A. colei, and the reinstatement of A. neurocarpa. Australian Systematic Botany 5(6): 729-743
Maslin, B.R. (9 July 2001), Wattle - Acacias of Australia: - [secondary reference]
Pedley, L. (3 December 2003), A synopsis of Racosperma C.Mart. (Leguminosae: Mimosoideae). Austrobaileya 6(3): 463 [basionym]
basionym of: Racosperma elachanthum (M.W.McDonald & Maslin) Pedley legitimate
Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2006), Australian Plant Census: - [secondary reference]
nomenclatural synonym: Racosperma elachanthum (M.W.McDonald & Maslin) Pedley legitimate taxonomic synonym: Acacia elachantha (hairy variant) [n/a] taxonomic synonym: Acacia elachantha (glabrous variant) [n/a] misapplication: Acacia cowleana Tate legitimate by Pedley, L. (20 July 1978), A revision of Acacia Mill. in Queensland, Part 1. Austrobaileya 1(2): 171-172 misapplication: Acacia cowleana Tate legitimate by Maslin, B.R. & Thomson, L.A.J. (18 December 1992), Re-appraisal of the taxonomy of Acacia holosericea, including the description of a new species, A. colei, and the reinstatement of A. neurocarpa. Australian Systematic Botany 5(6): 729-743
  • APC Comment: Two unnamed variants were recognised by McDonald & Maslin (1997). Hybrids between A. cowleana and A. elachantha are recorded in Qld (Henderson in Names and Distribution of Queensland Plants, Algae and Lichens, 2002).
  • APC Dist.: WA, NT, SA, Qld
Maslin, B.R., van Leeuwen, S. & Reid, J. (2010), Wattles of the Pilbara: - [secondary reference]
  • Etymology: "The botanical name is derived from the Greek elachys (little, small, short, low) and anthos (flower) and refers to the smaller flowers and shorter spikes which help distinguish the species from its closest relative, A. cowleana."
Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2014), Australian Plant Census: - [secondary reference]
nomenclatural synonym: Racosperma elachanthum (M.W.McDonald & Maslin) Pedley legitimate taxonomic synonym: Acacia elachantha (hairy variant) [n/a] taxonomic synonym: Acacia elachantha (typical variant) [n/a] misapplication: Acacia cowleana Tate legitimate by Pedley, L. (20 July 1978), A revision of Acacia Mill. in Queensland, Part 1. Austrobaileya 1(2): 171-172 misapplication: Acacia cowleana Tate legitimate by Maslin, B.R. & Thomson, L.A.J. (18 December 1992), Re-appraisal of the taxonomy of Acacia holosericea, including the description of a new species, A. colei, and the reinstatement of A. neurocarpa. Australian Systematic Botany 5(6): 729-743
  • APC Dist.: WA, NT, SA, Qld
Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (29 September 2022), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]
nomenclatural synonym: Racosperma elachanthum (M.W.McDonald & Maslin) Pedley legitimate taxonomic synonym: Acacia cowleana Tate x Acacia tropica (Maiden & Blakely) Tindale [n/a] taxonomic synonym: Acacia sp. (Beta J.L.Boorman AQ521363) [n/a] taxonomic synonym: Acacia elachantha (hairy variant) [n/a] taxonomic synonym: Acacia elachantha (typical variant) [n/a] misapplication: Acacia cowleana Tate legitimate by Pedley, L. (20 July 1978), A revision of Acacia Mill. in Queensland, Part 1. Austrobaileya 1(2): 171-172 misapplication: Acacia cowleana Tate legitimate by Maslin, B.R. & Thomson, L.A.J. (18 December 1992), Re-appraisal of the taxonomy of Acacia holosericea, including the description of a new species, A. colei, and the reinstatement of A. neurocarpa. Australian Systematic Botany 5(6): 729-743
  • APC Dist.: WA, NT, SA, Qld (native and naturalised)
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