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Acacia koa A.Gray

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HIGHER TAXON: Acacieae

GENUS: Acacia Mill.

Acacia koa A.Gray [Preferred name]
    Acacia kauaiensis Hillebr. {Synonym}
    Racosperma kauaiense (Hillebr.)Pedley {Synonym}

  
VERNACULAR NAME:
  Koa [1949, 1983]

GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION:
  Asia
India (I) [3367]; West Bengal [3367]
  Indian Ocean
Reunion (I) [1915]
  Pacific Ocean
Hawaii (N) [1431, 1643, 1915, 1949]

LITERATURE POINTERS:
  Description [1949, 1983]

DESCRIPTORS:
  Climbing: Not climbing [1915] ; Conservation Status: Not Threatened ; Further editing: 2004-2005 Novoselova MS ; Habit: Tree [1915] ; Lifespan: Perennial [1915] ; Scrutinised globally by taxonomic co-ordinator: 1994 Rico ML ; Source(s): 1988 (Americas) Zarucchi JL, 1993 (Indian Ocean) Lock JM & Ireland H, 1993 Zarucchi JL, 2004-11 (S Asia) Kumar S & Sane P, 2005 (Indian Ocean) Lock JM & Ireland H (JS2005)

  
NOTES:
  1940. [1915]

  
BIBLIOGRAPHY:

1431.

  List Based Record, 1986
    U.S. Soil Conservation Service

1643.

  St.John, H., 1979
    Phytologia 41(7):441-446 ..Sandwich Is. Hawaiian Plant St.8

1915.

  Polhill, R, M., 1990
    Legumineuses.In:Flore des Mascareignes,Vol 80.J. Bosser et a

1949.

  Wagner, W.L. et al, 1990
    Manual of the Flowering Plants of Hawaii, Vol.1.

1983.

  Bailey, L.H. & Bailey, E.Z., 1976
    Hortus Third. New York: Macmillan

3367.

  Chakrabarty T, Gangopadhyay M, 1996
    The genus Acacia. J. Econ. Taxon Bot. 20:599-633

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