Bentham, G. in Hooker, W.J. (1842), Notes on Mimoseae, with a synopsis of species. London Journal of Botany 1: 360 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Highlands near the Liverpool Plains, N.S. Wales, Fraser."

Bentham, G. (5 October 1864), Flora Australiensis 2: 357 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Acacia clavata Schltdl. legitimate

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1875), Census of the plants of Tasmania, instituted in 1875. Monthly Notices of Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 1874: 78 [secondary reference]

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

Dixon, W.A. (1906), The Plants of New South Wales: 109 [secondary reference]

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

Black, J.M. (January 1948), Casuarinaceae-Euphorbiaceae. Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 2: 417 [secondary reference]

Pedley, L. (20 July 1978), A revision of Acacia Mill. in Queensland, Part 1. Austrobaileya 1(2): 202 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Acacia clavata Schltdl. legitimate

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 149 [secondary reference]

Pedley, L. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1984), Mimosaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 1: 358 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Acacia clavata Schltdl. legitimate

Pedley, L. (24 September 1987), Racosperma Martius (Leguminosae: Mimosoideae) in Queensland: a checklist. Austrobaileya 2(4): 352 [basionym]

basionym of: Racosperma montanum (Benth.) Pedley legitimate

Morrison, D.A. & Davies, S.J. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1991), Acacia. Flora of New South Wales 2: 358, pl. 24 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Racosperma montanum (Benth.) Pedley legitimate

Entwisle, T.J., Maslin, B.R., Cowan, R.S. & Court, A.B. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1996), Mimosaceae. Flora of Victoria 3: 608-609, Fig. 123c [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Racosperma montanum (Benth.) Pedley legitimate taxonomic synonym: Acacia montana var. psilocarpa J.H.Willis legitimate common name: Mallee Wattle [n/a]

Maslin, B.R. in Orchard, A.E. & Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (2001), Flora of Australia 11A: 603, Fig. 85H-M, Map 509 [secondary reference]

• Type: native of high land near Liverpool Plains, N.S.W., observed in flower in September, a tall shrub, C.Fraser ; holo: K.

nomenclatural synonym: Racosperma montanum (Benth.) Pedley legitimate taxonomic synonym: Acacia clavata Schltdl. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Acacia montana var. psilocarpa J.H.Willis legitimate common name: Mallee Wattle [n/a]

• Comment: G.Bentham published the name A. montana in 1842, presumably between 11 June and 1 July of that year. Although I.C.Nielsen, Bull. Mus. Natl. Hist. Nat., B, Adansonia no. 3: 327 (1983), lists 'A. montana Junghuhn, Nat. Tijdschr. Ned. Ind. 5: 626 (1842)' it appears that the latter name (= Albizia montana) was not published until 1843 (K.Wilson, pers. comm.).

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

Kodela, P.G. & Harden, G.J. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (2002), Acacia. Flora of New South Wales Revised Edition 2: 428 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Racosperma montanum (Benth.) Pedley legitimate common name: Mallee Wattle [n/a]

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

nomenclatural synonym: Acacia montana Benth. var. montana legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Racosperma montanum (Benth.) Pedley legitimate taxonomic synonym: Acacia clavata Schltdl. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Acacia montana var. psilocarpa J.H.Willis legitimate

• APC Comment: Possible hybrids between A. aspera and ?A. montana are known from the Whipstick, Vic (Willis, 1957; Court in Willis in Handb. Pl. Victoria, 1973; Maslin, 2001). Putative hybrids are recorded between A. paradoxa and A. montana in SA and one of these may be the basis for the erroneous record of A. menzelii in NSW (Whibley & Symon in Acacia S. Australia, 1992; Maslin, 2001).
• APC Dist.: SA, Qld, NSW, Vic

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