Vascular Plants Australian Plant Name Index (APNI)

Showing Vachellia farnesiana
Fabaceae Lindl.
Vachellia farnesiana (L.) Wight & Arn. , legitimate, scientific
Wight, R. & Arnott, G.A.W. in Wight, R. & Arnott, G.A.W. (ed.) (1834), Prodromus Florae Peninsulae Indiae Orientalis 1: 272 [comb. nov.]
basionym: Acacia farnesiana (L.) Willd. legitimate
Bentham, G. in Hooker, W.J. (1842), Notes on Mimoseae, with a synopsis of species. London Journal of Botany 1: 495 [nomenclatural synonym]
nomenclatural synonym of: Acacia farnesiana (L.) Willd. legitimate
Bentham, G. (5 October 1864), Flora Australiensis 2: 420 BHL [nomenclatural synonym]
nomenclatural synonym of: Acacia farnesiana (L.) Willd. legitimate
Domin, K. (1926), Beitrage zur Flora und Pflanzengeographie Australiens. Bibliotheca Botanica 22(89): 827 [nomenclatural synonym]
nomenclatural synonym of: Acacia farnesiana (L.) Willd. legitimate
Pedley, L. (29 February 1980), A revision of Acacia Mill. in Queensland, Part 2. Austrobaileya 1(3): 308 [nomenclatural synonym]
nomenclatural synonym of: Acacia farnesiana (L.) Willd. legitimate
Pedley, L. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1984), Mimosaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 1: 383 [nomenclatural synonym]
nomenclatural synonym of: Acacia farnesiana (L.) Willd. legitimate
Kodela, P.G. & Tindale, M.D. in Orchard, A.E. & Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (2001), Flora of Australia 11A: 205 [nomenclatural synonym]
nomenclatural synonym of: Acacia farnesiana (L.) Willd. legitimate
Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2006), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]
nomenclatural synonym: Mimosa farnesiana L. legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Acacia farnesiana (L.) Willd. legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Farnesia odora Gasp. nom. illeg. nomenclatural synonym: Popanax farnesiana (L.) Raf. legitimate doubtful nomenclatural synonym: Mimosa suaveolens Salisb. nom. illeg., nom. superfl. taxonomic synonym: Acacia pedunculata Willd. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Acacia lenticellata F.Muell. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Acacia farnesiana var. lenticellata (F.Muell.) F.M.Bailey legitimate taxonomic synonym: Acacia lenticulata Pedley orth. var.
  • APC Dist.: WA (naturalised), CoI (formerly naturalised), NT (naturalised), SA (naturalised), Qld (naturalised), NSW (naturalised)
Bean, A.R. (26 February 2007), A new system for determining which plant species are indigenous in Australia. Australian Systematic Botany 20(1): 27-28, Fig. 29 (map) [secondary reference]
nomenclatural synonym: Acacia farnesiana (L.) Willd. legitimate
Maslin, B.R. & van Leeuwen, S. (2008), Wattles of the Pilbara: 32-33 [secondary reference]
common name: Mimosa bush [n/a]
  • Etymology: "The botanical name commemorates the Italian family, Farnese."
  • Vernacular: gurarra (Ngarluma, Yindjibarndi)
  • Vernacular: jarrtinpa (Kurrama)
Maslin, B.R., van Leeuwen, S. & Reid, J. (2010), Wattles of the Pilbara: - [secondary reference]
common name: Spiky Wattle [n/a] common name: Sweet Minosa [n/a] common name: Mimosa Bush [n/a]
  • Etymology: "The botanical name commemorates the illustrious Italian family Farnese at whose villa near Rome this species was cultivated and from which it was originally described (Hall and Johnson [in The Names of Acacias of New South Wales with a Guide to Pronunciation of Botanical Names p. 69 ]1993)."
  • Vernacular: Goorarda (Ngarluma and Yindjibarndi)
  • Vernacular: Jardin (Banyjima)
  • Vernacular: Gurarra (Ngarluma and Yindjibarndi)
  • Vernacular: Jirrku (Nyangumarta)
  • Vernacular: Jirruka (Nyangumarta)
  • Vernacular: Jartinpa (Kurrama)
  • Vernacular: Jardinda (Kurrama)
Kyalangalilwa, B., Boatwright, J.S., Daru, B.H., Maurin, O. & Bank, M. van der (2013), Phylogenetic position and revised classification of Acacia s.l. (Fabaceae: Mimosoideae) in Africa, including new combinations in Vachellia and Senegalia. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 172: 512-513 [secondary reference]
nomenclatural synonym: Mimosa farnesiana L. legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Acacia farnesiana (L.) Willd. legitimate