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Taxon:  Acacia oswaldii F. Muell.



Summary
Genus:
Acacia
Family:
Fabaceae (alt. Leguminosae)
Subfamily:
Mimosoideae
Tribe:
Acacieae
Nomen number:
949
Place of publication:
Fragm. 4:5. 1863
Comment:
date of publication verified from original literature
Verified:
10/13/1989 ARS Systematic Botanists.
Accessions:
6 (3  active, 1  available) in Australian Pastures Genebank.  (Map it)
Other conspecific taxa
Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
Homotypic Synonym(s)
Racosperma oswaldii (F. Muell.) Pedley

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Reference(s)
  1. Beadle, N. C. W. 1964. Nitrogen economy in arid and semi-arid plant communities. Part III. The symbiotic nitrogen-fixing organisms. Proc. Linn. Soc. New South Wales 89(2):273-286.
  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. Hnatiuk, R. J. Census of Australian vascular plants. Australian Flora and Fauna Series No. 11. 1990
  5. Integrated Botanical Information System (IBIS). Australian plant common name database (on-line resource).
  6. Jessop, J. P. & H. R. Toelken, eds. Flora of South Australia, ed. 4. 1986
  7. Maslin, B. R. & L. Pedley. 1982. The distribution of Acacia (Leguminosae: Mimosoideae) in Australia. Part 1. Species distribution maps. Res. Notes W. Austral. Herb. 6:88.
  8. Pedley, L. 1978. A revision of Acacia Mill. in Queensland. Austrobaileya 1:187.
  9. Pedley, L. 1987. Racosperma Martius (Leguminosae: Mimosoideae) in Queensland: a checklist. Austrobaileya 2:353.
  10. Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
  11. Uphof, J. C. T. Dictionary of economic plants, ed. 2. 1968
  12. Willis, J. H. A handbook to plants in Victoria. 1970-1972
  13. Webster's third new international dictionary. 1961
Common names
English
umbrella acacia –
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=949. Accessed 19 July 2025.


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