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Acacia lanigera A.Cunn.

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HIGHER TAXON: Acacieae

GENUS: Acacia Mill.

Acacia lanigera A.Cunn. [Preferred name]
    Acacia lanigera var. brachyphylla Domin {Synonym}
    Racosperma lanigerum (A.Cunn.)Pedley {Synonym}

  
VERNACULAR NAME:
  Hairy Wattle [1917, 3580]; Woolly Wattle [3580]

GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION:
  Australasia
Australia (N) [1880, 1918, 3580]; Australian Capital Territory [3580]; New South Wales [3580]; Victoria [3580]

LITERATURE POINTERS:
  Description [1917, 1918, 3580] ; Illustration [1917, 1918]

DESCRIPTORS:
  Climbing: Not climbing ; Habit: Shrub ; Lifespan: Perennial ; Scrutinised globally by taxonomic co-ordinator: 1994 Rico ML ; Source(s): 1992 (Phytochem.) Southon I & Bowes I, 1993 Polhill RM, 2004-04 (Acacia, Australia) Novoselova MS extract

  
USES:
  Environmental [1924]

  
NOTES:
  Closely related to A.venulosa; it is more uncertanly related to A.oswaldii. [3580]
  Comprises three varieties. [3580]

  
BIBLIOGRAPHY:

1880.

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

1917.

  Harden, G.J.(Ed.), 1991
    Flora of New South Wales,Vol 2. Kensington: New South Wales

1918.

  Burbidge, N.T. & Gray, M., 1970
    Flora of the Australian Capital Territory.

1924.

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

3580.

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

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