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Taxon:  Acacia mangium Willd.



Summary
Genus:
Acacia
Family:
Fabaceae (alt. Leguminosae)
Subfamily:
Mimosoideae
Tribe:
Acacieae
Nomen number:
403168
Place of publication:
Sp. pl. 4(2):1053. 1806
Verified:
10/30/1995 ARS Systematic Botanists.
Accessions:
1 (1  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 mangium (Willd.) Pedley

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Reference(s)
  1. Acevedo-Rodríguez, P. & M. T. Strong. Flora of the West Indies (on-line resource).
  2. Aldén, B., S. Ryman & M. Hjertson. Våra kulturväxters namn - ursprung och användning. Formas, Stockholm (Handbook on Swedish cultivated and utility plants, their names and origin). 2009
  3. Bailey, F. M. 1900. The Queensland flora. 1899-1905 2:512.
  4. Dinh Kha, L. 2000. Studies on natural hybrids of Acacia mangium and A. auriculiformis in Vietnam. J. Trop. Forest Sci. 12:794-803.
  5. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop (on-line resource).
  6. Gavina, L. D. & M. U. Garcia. 1987. Growth and nodulation of four species of Acacia (auriculiformis, mangium, aulacocarpa, and mearnsii) in grassland soil. Nitrogen Fixing Tree Res. Rep. 5:14-15.
  7. Hnatiuk, R. J. Census of Australian vascular plants. Australian Flora and Fauna Series No. 11. 1990
  8. Integrated Botanical Information System (IBIS). Australian plant common name database (on-line resource).
  9. Midgley, S. J. & J. W. Turnbull. 2003. Domestication and use of Australian acacias: case studies of five important species. Austral. Syst. Bot. 16:89-102.
  10. National Academy of Sciences. Tropical legumes: resources for the future. 1979
  11. Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
  12. Soerianegara, I. & R. H. M. J. Lemmens, eds. 1993. Timber trees: major commercial timbers. Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA). 1989- 5(1):48, 58.
Common names
English
black wattle –
broadleaf salwood –
brown salwood –
hickory wattle –
northern wattle –
Sabah salwood –
sally wattle –
Swedish
hickory-akacia –
Distribution
order_codeStatusContinentSubcontinentCountryStateNote
1NativeAustralasiaAustraliaAustraliaQueensland 
2CultivatedAsia-TropicalIndo-ChinaVietnam  
2CultivatedAsia-TropicalMalesiaMalaysia  
Native
Australasia
  • AUSTRALIA: Australia [Queensland]
Cultivated
Asia-Tropical
  • INDO-CHINA: Vietnam
  • MALESIA: Malaysia
Economic Uses
UsageTypeNoteReference
Animal foodforage National Academy of Sciences. Tropical legumes: resources for the future. 1979
Environmentalpotential as revegetator National Academy of Sciences. Tropical legumes: resources for the future. 1979
Environmentalsoil improver National Academy of Sciences. Tropical legumes: resources for the future. 1979
Fuelsfuelwood Soerianegara, I. & R. H. M. J. Lemmens, eds. 1993. Timber trees: major commercial timbers. Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA). 1989- 5(1):48, 58.
Human foodvegetable National Academy of Sciences. Tropical legumes: resources for the future. 1979
Materialspotential as fiber National Academy of Sciences. Tropical legumes: resources for the future. 1979
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=403168. Accessed 19 July 2025.


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