Candolle, A.P. de in Candolle, A.P. de (ed.) (1825), Leguminosae. Prodromus Systematis Naturalis Regni Vegetabilis 2: 451 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "in Novae-Holland. orâ orientali. (v.s. ex Mus. Par.)"

Candolle, A.P. de (13 January 1827), Memoires sur la Famille des Legumineuses 8: 446 [secondary reference]

Bentham, G. (5 October 1864), Flora Australiensis 2: 355 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Acacia muelleri Benth. legitimate

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 44 [secondary reference]

Black, J.M. (1924), Casuarinaceae - Euphorbiaceae. Flora of South Australia 2: 276-277 [secondary reference]

Black, J.M. (January 1948), Casuarinaceae-Euphorbiaceae. Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 2: 410 [secondary reference]

Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 83 [secondary reference]

Maslin, B.R. & Whibley, D.J.E. (23 December 1987), The taxonomy of some South Australian Acacia section Phyllodineae species (Leguminosae: Mimosoideae). Nuytsia 6(1): 23-26, Fig. 1 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Acacia glaucescens F.Cels nom. illeg. taxonomic synonym: Acacia pterigoidea Seem. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Acacia megaphylla Benth. nom. inval., pro syn. taxonomic synonym: Acacia muelleri Benth. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Acacia anceps var. angustifolia Benth. legitimate misapplication: Acacia retinodes Schltdl. legitimate by Nelson, E.C. (1974), Disjunct plant distributions on the south-western Nullarbor Plain, Western Australia. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 57: 110

Maslin, B.R. in Orchard, A.E. & Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (2001), Flora of Australia 11A: 274-275, Fig. 16L-P, Map 97 [secondary reference]

• Type: Nouvelle Hollande, cote orientali, anonymous [presumably collected by J.Leschenault in 1803 from near Ceduna, S.A., fide B.R.Maslin & D.J.E.Whibley, Nuytsia 6: 23 (1987)]; holo: G-DC; iso: BM, P.

taxonomic synonym: Acacia glaucescens F.Cels nom. illeg. taxonomic synonym: Acacia pterigoidea Seem. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Acacia celsiana Ser. nom. illeg. taxonomic synonym: Acacia megaphylla Benth. nom. inval., pro syn. taxonomic synonym: Acacia muelleri Benth. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Acacia anceps var. angustifolia Benth. legitimate misapplication: Acacia retinodes Schltdl. legitimate by Nelson, E.C. (1974), Disjunct plant distributions on the south-western Nullarbor Plain, Western Australia. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 57: 110

Maslin, B.R. (9 July 2001), Wattle - Acacias of Australia: - [secondary reference]

Pedley, L. (3 December 2003), A synopsis of Racosperma C.Mart. (Leguminosae: Mimosoideae). Austrobaileya 6(3): 449 [basionym]

basionym of: Racosperma anceps (DC.) Pedley legitimate

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2006), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Acacia anceps DC. var. anceps legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Racosperma anceps (DC.) Pedley legitimate taxonomic synonym: Acacia glaucescens F.Cels nom. illeg. taxonomic synonym: Acacia pterigoidea Seem. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Acacia glauca Ser. orth. var. taxonomic synonym: Acacia celsiana Ser. nom. illeg. taxonomic synonym: Acacia megaphylla Benth. nom. inval., pro syn. taxonomic synonym: Acacia muelleri Benth. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Acacia megaphylla Benth. nom. inval., pro syn. taxonomic synonym: Acacia anceps var. angustifolia Benth. legitimate misapplication: Acacia retinodes Schltdl. legitimate by Nelson, E.C. (1974), Disjunct plant distributions on the south-western Nullarbor Plain, Western Australia. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 57: 110

• APC Comment: Probable natural hybrids are known between A. nematophylla and A. anceps, and between A. anceps and A. notabilis. Hybridisation between A. leiophylla and A. anceps may have contributed to some populations of A. alcockii (Maslin, 2001).
• APC Dist.: WA, SA

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