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Acacia holosericea G.Don

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HIGHER TAXON: Acacieae

GENUS: Acacia Mill.

Acacia holosericea G.Don [Preferred name]
    Acacia holosericea var. glabrata Maiden {Synonym}
    Acacia holosericea var. multispirea Domin {Synonym}
    Acacia holosericea var. typica Domin {Synonym}
    Acacia mangium var. holosericea (G.Don)C.T.White {Synonym}
    Racosperma holosericeum (G.Don)Pedley {Synonym}

  
VERNACULAR NAME:
  Silver-leaved Wattle [3580]; Soap Bush [3580]

GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION:
  Asia
Brunei (I) [3939]; India (I) [1914, 3367]; Tamil Nadu [3367]; West Bengal [1914]
  Australasia
Australia (N) [261, 1880, 3580]; Northern Territory [3580]; Queensland [3580]; Western Australia [3580]; Papua New Guinea (N) [261]

LITERATURE POINTERS:
  Description [261, 1919, 1920, 1924, 2022, 3367, 3580] ; Distribution Map [3580] ; Illustration [1924, 3580, 3593]

DESCRIPTORS:
  Climbing: Not climbing [261] ; Conservation Status: Not Threatened ; Further editing: 2004-2005 Novoselova MS ; Habit: Shrub [261], Tree [261] ; Lifespan: Perennial [261] ; Scrutinised globally by taxonomic co-ordinator: 1994 Rico ML ; Source(s): 1992 (Phytochem.) Southon I & Bowes I, 1993 Polhill RM, 2004 (Malesia) Lock JM & Ford C (SJ2005), 2004-04 (Acacia, Australia) Novoselova MS extract, 2004-11 (S Asia) Kumar S & Sane P

  
USES:
  Environmental [1924]; Medicine [3580]

  
NOTES:
  Introduced to Malesia as a street tree. [2022]

  
BIBLIOGRAPHY:

261.

  Verdcourt, B., 1979
    A Manual of New Guinea Legumes. Office of Forests, Lae,PNG

1880.

  Hnatiuk, R.J., 1990
    Census Australian Vasc. Plants, Bureau Fl. & Fauna, Canberra

1914.

  Sanjappa, M., 1992
    Legumes of India. Dehra Dun: Bishen Singh Mahendra...

1919.

  Hacker, J.B., 1990
    A Guide to Herbaceous and Shrub Legumes of Queensland.

1920.

  Jessop, J.(Ed.), 1981
    Flora of Central Australia. Sydney

1924.

  Elliot, W.R. & Jones, D.L., 1980
    Encyclopaedia of Australian Plants, Vols.1-5. (1980-1990)

2022.

  Nielsen, I.C., 1992
    Flora Malesiana, Series I Vol II Part I Mimosaceae.

3367.

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

3580.

  Orchard, AE & Wilson, AJG, Eds., 2001
    Flora of Australia, Vol. 11B. Mimosaceae, Acacia part 2.

3593.

  Matthew, K.M., 1996
    Illustrations on the Flora of the Plain Hills, South India.

3939.

  Kirkup et al., 1997
    Brunei Checklist

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