Fabaceae Lindl.
Acacia nilotica (L.) Willd. ex Delile , legitimate, scientific
Delile, A.R. (1814), Description de l'Egypte. Historie naturelle 2: 79 [comb. nov.]
basionym: Mimosa nilotica L. legitimate
  • Comment: Often referred to R.L.Desfontaines, Tableau de l'École de Botanique du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle ed. 2 (1815) 208, however the name is given therein without description or reference to a basionym, and in any case is predated by Delile, above.
Black, J.M. (January 1948), Casuarinaceae-Euphorbiaceae. Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 2: 428 [secondary reference]
taxonomic synonym: Acacia arabica (Lam.) Willd. legitimate
Pedley, L. (1969), Notes on Acacia, chiefly from Queensland, III. Contributions from the Queensland Herbarium 4: 7 [secondary reference]
Pedley, L. (29 February 1980), A revision of Acacia Mill. in Queensland, Part 2. Austrobaileya 1(3): 309-310 [secondary reference]
Dunlop, C.R. (1987), Checklist of the Vascular Plants of the Northern Territory. Technical Report: Conservation Commission of the Northern Territory 26: 50 [secondary reference]
Robson, Peter J. (1993), Checklist of Australian Trees: alphabetical listings of common and scientific names: - [secondary reference]
common name: Prickly Acacia [n/a]
Maslin, B.R. (9 July 2001), Wattle - Acacias of Australia: - [secondary reference]
Du Puy, D.J. & Villiers, J.-F. in Du Puy, D.J., Labat, J.-N., Rabevohitra, R., Villiers, J.-F., Bosser, J. & Moat, J. (ed.) (2002), Tribe Acacieae. The Leguminosae of Madagascar: 234-236, Fig. 44 [secondary reference]
Pedley, L. (30 September 2002), A conspectus of Acacia subg. Acacia in Australia. Austrobaileya 6(2): 182-183 [secondary reference]
Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2006), Australian Plant Census: - [secondary reference]
nomenclatural synonym: Mimosa nilotica L. legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Acacia arabica (Lam.) Willd. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Mimosa arabica Lam. legitimate
  • APC Dist.: WA (naturalised), NT (naturalised), SA (naturalised), Qld (naturalised)
Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2011), Australian Plant Census: - [nomenclatural synonym]
nomenclatural synonym of: Vachellia nilotica (L.) P.J.H.Hurter & Mabb. legitimate
Kyalangalilwa, B., Boatwright, J.S., Daru, B.H., Maurin, O. & Bank, M. van der (2013), Phylogenetic position and revised classification of Acacia s.l. (Fabaceae: Mimosoideae) in Africa, including new combinations in Vachellia and Senegalia. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 172: 515 [nomenclatural synonym]
nomenclatural synonym of: Vachellia nilotica (L.) P.J.H.Hurter & Mabb. legitimate
Parker, C.M. (10 March 2015), Updates to Western Australia's vascular plant census for 2014. Nuytsia 25: 18 [nomenclatural synonym]
nomenclatural synonym of: Vachellia nilotica (L.) P.J.H.Hurter & Mabb. legitimate
Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2016), Australian Plant Census: - [nomenclatural synonym]
nomenclatural synonym of: Vachellia nilotica (L.) P.J.H.Hurter & Mabb. legitimate