Life Science Identifier (LSID):

urn:lsid:biodiversity.org.au:apni.taxon:298895

LSIDs are persistent, location-independent,resource identifiers for uniquely naming biologically significant resources including species names, concepts, occurrences, genes or proteins, or data objects that encode information about them. To put it simply, LSIDs are a way to identify and locate pieces of biological information on the web.

Data Links

JSON

For a JSON view of this data, click here

WMS

To use WMS services, copy and paste the following GetCapabilities URL into your OGC client (e.g. uDIG, ESRI ArcGIS)
http://biocache.ala.org.au/ws/ogc/ows?q=species:Acacia pycnantha
For higher taxa, this will give you a hierarchical listing of layers for each taxon.

RDF

To download an RDF/XML document for the concepts and names click here
A JSON view of this information is here here
A html view of this information is here here

Further details

For more details on occurrence webservices, click here
For more details on names webservices, click here

Species presence: Recorded In Australia; Terrestrial Habitats

Occurrence records map

View records list Map & analyse records

Source: Australian Plant Image Index
Image by: Fagg, M.

Description

Erect or spreading tree or shrub 3–8 m high; bark smooth or finely fissured, dark brown to greyish; branchlets angled or terete, glabrous. source: Plant NET Flora Online

Golden wattle is Australia's national floral emblem. It was unofficially recognised as the emblem before being officially proclaimed on 1 September 1988. It is a a shrub or small tree 5-8 metres high. Like most members of the genus, the mature plant does not have true leaves but has leaf-like flattened stems called phyllodes. ... source: Australian Native Plants Society (Australia)

The species grows to between 2 and 8 metres in height with generally smooth, dark brown to grey bark. The mature trees do not have true leaves but have long, sickle -shaped phyllodes . These are shiny and dark green and are between 8 and 20 cm long and 0.5 to 3.5 cm wide. The rounded inflorescences are bright yellow and occur in axillary racemes or terminal panicles in groupings of between 4 and 23. ... source: Wikipedia

Online resources

Australian Native Plants Society (Australia): Description, Distribution
Encyclopedia of Life: Images
Flickr EOL: Images, Occurrence record
Flora of Westgate Park - Photos from Lyn Allison: Images, Occurrence record
FloraBase - the Western Australian Flora: Reference, Scientific Description Author, Name Status
NatureShare: Images, Occurrence record
Plant NET Flora Online: Description, Distribution, Flowering Season, Distribution Map, Synonym
Plants of the NSW South Coast & ACT - Don and Betty Wood: Images, Occurrence record
Wikipedia: Description, Distribution

Species Lists

Australian iconic species
Testing – Mr. Stewart’s listing of familiar native vascular plant taxa: Order: Fabales; Genus: Acacia; Family: Fabaceae; Taxon Rank: species

Images

FloraBase - the Western Australian Flora

Australian Native Plants Society (Australia)

Plants of the NSW South Coast & ACT - Don and Betty Wood

Flora of Westgate Park - Photos from Lyn Allison

Names and sources

Accepted name	Source
Acacia pycnantha	Australian Plant Census

Synonyms

Synonyms	Source
Acacia leiophylla Benth.	Australian Plant Census
Acacia petiolaris Lehm.	Australian Plant Census
Published in: Lehmann, J.G.C. in Otto, C.F.E. 1851, Neue Allgemeine Deutsche Garten-und Blumenzeitung 7
Acacia falcinella Meisn.	Australian Plant Census
Published in: Meissner, C.F. 1855, Botanische Zeitung 13
Acacia pycnantha var. pycnantha	Australian Plant Census
Published in: Bentham, G. 1864, Flora Australiensis 2 1-521
Acacia pycnantha var. petiolaris H.Vilm.	Australian Plant Census
Published in: Vilmorin, C.P.H.L. de 1893, Journal of the Royal Horticultural Society, London 16
Acacia westoni orth. var. Maiden	Australian Plant Census
Published in: Maiden, J.H. 1921, Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales 54
Acacia westonii Maiden	Australian Plant Census
Published in: Maiden, J.H. 1921, Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales 54
Racosperma pycnanthum (Benth.) Pedley	Australian Plant Census
Published in: Pedley, L. 2003, A synopsis of Racosperma C.Mart. (Leguminosae: Mimosoideae). Austrobaileya 6(3) 445-496
Acacia falcinella Meisn.	Australian Plant Census
Published in: Maslin, B.R. & Cowan, R.S. 1994, C.F.Meissner's species of Acacia (Leguminosae: Mimosoideae): typification of the names. Nuytsia 9(3) 399-414

Common Names

Common name	Source
Golden Wattle Is this a preferred common name for this species? YES \| NO	Australian Native Plants Society (Australia) Plant NET Flora Online Australian Plant Names Index
Australian Golden Wattle Is this a preferred common name for this species? YES \| NO	Australian Plant Names Index
Black Wattle Is this a preferred common name for this species? YES \| NO	Australian Plant Names Index
Broad-leaved Wattle Is this a preferred common name for this species? YES \| NO	Australian Plant Names Index
Goldern Wattle Is this a preferred common name for this species? YES \| NO	Australian Plant Names Index
Green Wattle Is this a preferred common name for this species? YES \| NO	Australian Plant Names Index
Witch Is this a preferred common name for this species? YES \| NO	Australian Plant Names Index

Working classification

kingdom: Plantae

Occurrence records

View list of all occurrence records for this taxon

Charts showing breakdown of occurrence records

Hint: click on chart elements to view that subset of records

Record maps from other sources

Source: Plant NET Flora Online

Name references found in the Biodiversity Heritage Library

Name references found in the TROVE - NLA

Desktop version

Acacia pycnantha Benth.

Australian Golden Wattle