Vascular Plants Australian Plant Name Index (APNI)

Showing Acacia wickhamii
Fabaceae Lindl.
Acacia wickhamii Benth. , legitimate, scientific
Bentham, G. in Hooker, W.J. (1842), Notes on Mimoseae, with a synopsis of species. London Journal of Botany 1: 377 [tax. nov.]
  • Type: "Swan Bay, N.W. Coast, Wickham"
Bentham, G. in Mueller, F.J.H. von (1859), in Contributiones ad Acaciarum Australiae Cognitionem. Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society, Botany 3: 141-142 BHL [secondary reference]
taxonomic synonym: Acacia calligera Benth. nom. inval., pro syn.
Bentham, G. (5 October 1864), Flora Australiensis 2: 392 BHL [secondary reference]
Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 46 [secondary reference]
Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 162 [secondary reference]
Chippendale, G.M. (17 April 1972), Check List of Northern Territory Plants. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 96(4): 238 BHL [secondary reference]
Pedley, L. (20 July 1978), A revision of Acacia Mill. in Queensland, Part 1. Austrobaileya 1(2): 135-136 [secondary reference]
taxonomic synonym: Acacia calligera Benth. nom. inval., pro syn.
Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 90 [secondary reference]
Dunlop, C.R. (1987), Checklist of the Vascular Plants of the Northern Territory. Technical Report: Conservation Commission of the Northern Territory 26: 51 [secondary reference]
Pedley, L. (24 September 1987), Racosperma Martius (Leguminosae: Mimosoideae) in Queensland: a checklist. Austrobaileya 2(4): 357 [basionym]
basionym of: Racosperma wickhamii (Benth.) Pedley legitimate
Wheeler, J.R. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Mimosaceae. Flora of the Kimberley Region: 331-333, Fig. 93G [secondary reference]
nomenclatural synonym: Racosperma wickhamii (Benth.) Pedley legitimate
Kenneally, K.F., Edinger, D.C. & Willing, T. (1996), Broome and Beyond. Plants and people of the Dampier Peninsula, Kimberley, Western Australia: 135 [secondary reference]
Kodela, P.G. & Tindale, M.D. in Orchard, A.E. & Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (2001), Flora of Australia 11B: 241 [secondary reference]
  • Type: Swan Bay, NW coast, [W.A.], 1837, [J. ]Wickham ; syn: K (photo NSW), NSW.
orthographic variant: Acacia wickhami Benth. orth. var. nomenclatural synonym: Racosperma wickhamii (Benth.) Pedley legitimate common name: Wickham's Wattle [n/a]
  • APC Comment: Specimens intermediate between the subspecies are recorded (Kodela & Tindale, 2001). Acacia wickhamii subsp. viscidula and subsp. parviphyllodinea, as recognised in Flora of Australia and in NT, are now placed under A. calligera.
  • APC Dist.: WA, NT, Qld
Maslin, B.R. (9 July 2001), Wattle - Acacias of Australia: - [secondary reference]
nomenclatural synonym: Racosperma wickhamii (Benth.) Pedley legitimate taxonomic synonym: Acacia calligera Benth. nom. inval., pro syn. taxonomic synonym: Acacia wickhamii β viscidula F.Muell. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Acacia nuperrima subsp. cassitera Pedley legitimate taxonomic synonym: Racosperma nuperrimum subsp. cassiterum (Pedley) Pedley legitimate
Moore, P. (2005), A guide to plants of inland Australia: 352 (photo, map) [secondary reference]
pro parte misapplication: Acacia nuperrima Baker f. legitimate common name: Wickham's Wattle [n/a]
  • Etymology: wickhamii: after John Wickham, naval officer on HMS Beagle, collector of the type on the west coast in 1827
Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2007), Australian Plant Census: - [secondary reference]
orthographic variant: Acacia wickhami Benth. orth. var. nomenclatural synonym: Racosperma wickhamii (Benth.) Pedley legitimate taxonomic synonym: Acacia calligera Benth. nom. inval., pro syn. taxonomic synonym: Acacia wickhami var. viscidula F.Muell. orth. var. taxonomic synonym: Acacia wickhamii β viscidula F.Muell. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Acacia wickhamii subsp. parviphyllodinea Tindale, Kodela & D.Keith legitimate taxonomic synonym: Acacia wickhamii subsp. viscidula (F.Muell.) Tindale, Kodela & D.Keith legitimate taxonomic synonym: Acacia wickhamii subsp. viscidulum Pedley orth. var. taxonomic synonym: Racosperma calligerum Pedley legitimate taxonomic synonym: Acacia wickhamii subsp. parviphyllodineum Pedley orth. var. taxonomic synonym: Acacia calligera (Pedley) Pedley legitimate
  • APC Comment: Specimens intermediate between the subspecies of Acacia wickhamii are recorded (P.G.Kodela & M.D.Tindale, Fl. Australia 11B: 243 (2001)). Acacia calligera is recognised as a distinct taxon in Qld.
  • APC Dist.: WA, NT, Qld
Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2011), Australian Plant Census: - [secondary reference]
orthographic variant: Acacia wickhami Benth. orth. var. nomenclatural synonym: Racosperma wickhamii (Benth.) Pedley legitimate taxonomic synonym: Acacia wickhami var. viscidula F.Muell. orth. var. taxonomic synonym: Acacia wickhamii β viscidula F.Muell. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Acacia calligera Benth. nom. inval., pro syn. taxonomic synonym: Acacia wickhamii subsp. viscidula Tindale, Kodela & D.Keith nom. inval. taxonomic synonym: Acacia wickhamii subsp. viscidula (F.Muell.) Tindale, Kodela & D.Keith legitimate taxonomic synonym: Acacia wickhamii subsp. parviphyllodinea Maslin nom. inval. taxonomic synonym: Acacia wickhamii subsp. parviphyllodinea Tindale, Kodela & D.Keith legitimate taxonomic synonym: Acacia wickhamii subsp. viscidulum Pedley orth. var. taxonomic synonym: Racosperma calligerum Pedley legitimate taxonomic synonym: Acacia wickhamii subsp. parviphyllodineum Pedley orth. var. taxonomic synonym: Acacia calligera (Pedley) Pedley legitimate
  • APC Comment: Specimens intermediate between the subspecies of Acacia wickhamii are recorded (P.G.Kodela & M.D.Tindale, Fl. Australia 11B: 243 (2001)). Acacia calligera is recognised as a distinct taxon in Qld.
  • APC Dist.: WA, NT, Qld
Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2014), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]
orthographic variant: Acacia wickhami Benth. orth. var. nomenclatural synonym: Racosperma wickhamii (Benth.) Pedley legitimate
  • APC Dist.: WA, NT, Qld