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Taxon:  Acacia ligulata A. Cunn. ex Benth.



Summary
Genus:
Acacia
Family:
Fabaceae (alt. Leguminosae)
Subfamily:
Mimosoideae
Tribe:
Acacieae
Nomen number:
907
Place of publication:
London J. Bot. 1:362. 1842
Verified:
05/04/2000 ARS Systematic Botanists.
Accessions:
8 (8  active, 4  available) in Australian Pastures Genebank.  (Map it)
Other conspecific taxa
Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
Homotypic Synonym(s)
Racosperma ligulatum (A. Cunn. ex Benth.) Pedley

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Reference(s)
  1. Chapman, A. R. & B. R. Maslin. 1992. Acacia miscellany 5. A review of the A. bivenosa group (Leguminosae: Mimosoideae: Section Phyllodineae). Nuytsia 8:266.
  2. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop (on-line resource).
  3. Green, J. W. Census of the vascular plants of Western Australia. 1985
  4. Harris, J. R. 1953. List of species of bacterial genus Rhizobium maintained in the type collection of C.S.I.R.O. Techn. Mem. Div. Soils C.S.I.R.O. 10/53:1-6.
  5. Hnatiuk, R. J. Census of Australian vascular plants. Australian Flora and Fauna Series No. 11. 1990
  6. Integrated Botanical Information System (IBIS). Australian plant common name database (on-line resource).
  7. Jessop, J. P. & H. R. Toelken, eds. Flora of South Australia, ed. 4. 1986
  8. Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. Hortus third. 1976
  9. Maslin, B. R. & L. Pedley. 1982. The distribution of Acacia (Leguminosae: Mimosoideae) in Australia. Part 1. Species distribution maps. Res. Notes W. Austral. Herb. 6:71.
  10. Pedley, L. 1980. A revision of Acacia Mill. in Queensland (concluded). Austrobaileya 1:26,273.
  11. Pedley, L. 1987. Racosperma Martius (Leguminosae: Mimosoideae) in Queensland: a checklist. Austrobaileya 2:351.
  12. Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
  13. Simmons, M. 1988. Acacias of Australia. 2:166.
  14. Whibley, D. J. E. 1980. The Acacias of South Australia. 108.
  15. Willis, J. H. A handbook to plants in Victoria. 1970-1972
Common names
English
dune wattle –
little cooba –
sandhill acacia –
sandhill wattle –
small cooba –
umbrella wattle –
umbrella-bush –
Distribution
order_codeStatusContinentSubcontinentCountryStateNote
1NativeAustralasiaAustraliaAustraliaNew South Wales 
1NativeAustralasiaAustraliaAustraliaNorthern Territory 
1NativeAustralasiaAustraliaAustraliaQueensland 
1NativeAustralasiaAustraliaAustraliaSouth Australia 
1NativeAustralasiaAustraliaAustraliaVictoria 
1NativeAustralasiaAustraliaAustraliaWestern Australia 
Native
Australasia
  • AUSTRALIA: Australia [New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia, Northern Territory]
Cite as: USDA, Agricultural Research Service, National Plant Germplasm System. 2025. Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN Taxonomy). National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland.
URL: https://apg.pir.sa.gov.au/gringlobal/taxon/taxonomydetail?id=907. Accessed 19 July 2025.


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