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wattles
Acacia
Acacia, commonly known as the wattles or acacias, is a large genus of shrubs and trees in the subfamily Mimosoideae of the pea family Fabaceae. Initially it comprised a group of plant species native to Africa and Australia, with the first species A. nilotica described by Linnaeus. Controversy erupted in the early 2000s when it became evident that the genus as it stood was not monophyletic, and that several divergent lineages needed to be placed in...
17 branches of this genus, most-observed first
Phyllodineae
subgenusPhyllodineae
Botrycephalae
subgenusBotrycephalae
Juliflorae
subgenusJuliflorae
Plurinerves
subgenusPlurinerves
Pulchellae
subgenusPulchellae
Alatae
subgenusAlatae
Lycopodiifoliae
subgenusLycopodiifoliae
Acacia thieleana
speciesAcacia thieleana
Acacia collegialis
speciesAcacia collegialis
Acacia corusca
speciesAcacia corusca
Acacia holosericea × longispicata
hybridAcacia holosericea × longispicata
Acacia aurea
speciesAcacia aurea
Acacia besleyi
speciesAcacia besleyi
Acacia petricola
speciesAcacia petricola
Acacia anadenia
speciesAcacia anadenia
Acacia castorum
speciesAcacia castorum
Acacia forsteri
speciesAcacia forsteri
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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In the old herbals & bestiaries
Jan Moninckx; Maria Moninckx — Moninckx Atlas, vol. 5 (1686)
Jan Moninckx; Maria Moninckx · 1686 · p.27
Mark Catesby — Piscium, serpentum, insectorum (pt. 1) (1750)
Mark Catesby · 1750 · p.133
Drei Monate in der libyschen Wüste
Gerhard Rohlfs · 1875 · p.329
The Canon of Medicine
Avicenna (Ibn Sina) · 1555 · p.1205
The natural history of Carolina, Florida, and the Bahama Islands : containing two hundred a...
Catesby, Mark, bioloog, kunstenaar · 1743 · p.416
The natural history of Carolina, Florida, and the Bahama Islands : containing two hundred a...
Catesby, Mark, bioloog, kunstenaar · 1743 · p.135
The natural history of Carolina, Florida, and the Bahama Islands : containing two hundred a...
Catesby, Mark, bioloog, kunstenaar · 1743 · p.162
The natural history of Carolina, Florida, and the Bahama Islands : containing two hundred a...
Catesby, Mark, bioloog, kunstenaar · 1743 · p.300
The Natural History of Carolina Florida and Bahama Islands Vol. 2
Mark Catesby · 1743 · p.133
The Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands, Vol. 1
Mark Catesby · 1777 · p.146
Commentaries on the Six Books of Dioscorides
Pietro Andrea Mattioli · 1560 · p.233
Garden of Health
Jacob Meydenbach · 1491 · p.390
In the stacks
Searching the stacks…
Every page naming Acacia in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 47452.