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Acacia oxycedrus DC.

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HIGHER TAXON: Acacieae

GENUS: Acacia Mill.

Acacia oxycedrus DC. [Preferred name]
    Acacia oxycedura DC. {Orthographic variant}
    Acacia taxifolia Lodd. {Synonym}
    Hecatandra oxycedrus (DC.)Raf. {Synonym}

  
VERNACULAR NAME:
  Spike Wattle [1917, 3580]

GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION:
  Asia
India (I) [1914]; Karnataka [1914]
  Australasia
Australia (N) [1880, 1917, 1921, 3580]; New South Wales [1880, 3580]; South Australia [1917, 1921, 3580]; Victoria [1880, 3580]

LITERATURE POINTERS:
  Description [1917, 1921, 1924, 3580] ; Distribution Map [3580] ; Illustration [1917, 1921, 3580]

DESCRIPTORS:
  Climbing: Not climbing ; Conservation Status: Not Threatened ; Further editing: 2004-2005 Novoselova MS ; Habit: Shrub, Tree ; 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, 2004-11 (S Asia) Kumar S & Sane P

  
USES:
  Environmental [1924]

  
NOTES:
  Adaptable ornamental, can be planted as windbreaks &, being prickly, fences [1924]

  
BIBLIOGRAPHY:

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...

1917.

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

1921.

  Jessop, J. & Toelken, H.R.(Eds.), 1986
    Flora of South Australia, Part 2.

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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