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References to Australian Acacia publications

A selection of publications prepared by the Botanic Gardens Library

Last updated August 2005

BOOKS

•  Armitage, I. (1977) Acacias of New South Wales. Surrey Beatty & Sons, Chipping Norton, N.S.W.

•  Australian Acacias. (1975) CSIRO Division of Forest Research, Canberra.

•  Baglin, D. and Mullins, B. (1968) Australian wattles. Horwitz, Sydney.

•  Brown, A.G. and Chin Ko, H. (1997) Black wattle and its utilisation. RIRDC, Barton.

•  Burbidge, N.T. (1967) The wattles of the Australian Capital Territory. Verity Hewitt, Canberra.

•  Campbell, A.J. (1921) Golden Wattle : our national floral emblem. Osboldstone & Co., Melbourne.

•  Chandler, B. (1980) Two hundred wattles for gardens. David G. Stead Memorial Wildlife Research Foundation of Australia, Sydney.

•  Chuk, M. (1982) The status and ecology of Acacia peuce in the Northern Territory. Conservation Commission of the Northern Territory, Alice Springs.

•  Clark, B 1995, Wattles are golden: selections from 100 Acacia Study Group newsletters 1961-1995, Acacia Study Group.

•  Coleman, E. (1943) Come back in wattle time : an illustrated handbook on the Australian wattles. 2nd ed., Robertson and Mullins, Melbourne.

•  Elliot, W.R. & Jones, D.L. (1982) Acacia pp. 9-132 in Encyclopaedia of Australian plants suitable for cultivation. Volume 2.

•  Entwisle, T.J. et al (1996) Mimosaceae: 1. Acacia. pp 585 - 656. in Walsh, N.G. and Entwisle, T.J. (eds) Flora of Victoria, Vol. 3. Inkata Press, Melbourne.

•  Gibbs, M. (1922 / 1982) Wattle babies. Angus and Robertson, Sydney.

•  Hall, N. (1984) Botanists of Australian Acacias. CSIRO, Melbourne. and see Suppl. 1 1993 by CSIRO.

•  Hall, N. and Johnson, L.A.S. (1993) The names of Acacias of New South Wales with a guide to pronunciation of botanical names. Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney.

•  Hitchcock, M. (1991) Wattle. Australian Government Publishing Service, Canberra.

•  House, A.P.N. and Harwood, C.E. (1992) Australian dry-zone Acacias for human food. Australian Tree Seed Centre, Canberra.

•  Jusaitis, M. and Sorensen, B. (1998) Conservation biology of Acacia whibleyana. Environment Australia, Botanic Gardens of Adelaide and State Herbarium.

•  Lindsay, P 1983, The Australian gardener's guide to propagation of trees and shrubs, A H & A W Reed, Franchs Forest.

•  Maslin, B.R. and McDonald, M.W. (1996) A key to useful Australian Acacias for the seasonally dry tropics. CSIRO Forestry & Forest Products, Collingwood.

•  Maslin, B.R. and Pedley, L. (1982) The distribution of Acacia in Australia. Western Australian Research Notes no. 6.

•  Maslin, B.R.  et al (1998) Edible wattle seeds of southern Australia. CSIRO Australia.

•  Morrison, D.A. and Davies, S.J. (1991) Mimosoideae 5. Acacia. pp. 327-392 in Harden G.J. (ed) Flora of NSW, Vol. 2. NSW University Press, Kensington.

•  Mueller, F.J.H. (1887 - 1888) Iconography of Acacia I Australia. Western Australian Research Notes No. 6.

•  New, T.R. (1984) A Biology of Acacias. Oxford University Press, Melbourne.

•  Panter, R. (1997) Australia's wattle day. Parliamentary Library, Canberra.

•  Pedley, L. (1987) Acacias in Queensland. Dept of Primary Industries, Brisbane.

•  Rogers, F.J.C. (1993) A field guide to Victorian wattles. 3rd ed. La Trobe University Press, Bundoora, Vic.

•  Searle, S. (1991) The rise and demise of the black wattle bark industry in Australia. CSIRO Division of Forestry, Canberra.

•  Simmons, M.H. (1981-1988) Acacias of Australia. Thomas Nelson, Melbourne. 2 vols.

•  Society for Growing Australian Plants, Acacia Study Group. (1995) Wattles are golden : selections from 100 Acacia Study Group Newsletters 1961-1995.

•  Stewart, A 1999, Let's propagate!, ABC Books, Sydney.

•  Tame, T. (1992) Acacias of southeast Australia. Kangaroo Press, Kenthurst, N.S.W.

•  Thomson, L.A.J. (1994) Acacia aulacocarpa, A. cincinnata, A. crassicarpa and A. wetarensis : an annotated bibliography. CSIRO, Canberra.

•  Whibley, D.J.E. and Symon, D.E. (1992) Acacias of South Australia. 2nd ed. Government Printer, South Australia.

•  Williams, J.B. and Harden, G.J. (1979) New England Acacias : a short key to the common species of the New England Tableland, N.S.W. University of New England, Botany Dept., Armidale, N.S.W.

•  Woolaston, T.C. (916) Our Wattles. Lothian, Melbourne.

•  Wrigley, J & Fagg, M 2003, Australian native plants, cultivation, use in landscaping and propagation, 5 th ed., Reed New Holland, Sydney.

JOURNAL ARTICLES  

•  Australian National Botanic Gardens, Information Sheet, “Propagation of wattle from seed”.

•  Benson, D. and McDougall, L. (1996) Ecology of Sydney plant species, Part 4: Dicotyledon family Fabaceae : Peas & Wattles. Cunninghamia v. 4 (4) : 553 - 752.

•  Carmen, P 2001, “The Propagation of prostrate Acacias”, Society for Growing Australian Plants, Canberra Region, Vol. 12, No. 8, p3.

•  Cowan, R.S. and Maslin, B.R. (1995) Acacia Miscellany 10. New taxa and notes on previously described taxa of Acacia mostly section Juliflorae (Leguminosae: Mimosoideae), in Western Australia. Nuytsia v. 10 : 15 -62.

•  Ellyard, R K & Ollerenshaw, P J “Acacia Flexifolia and its propagation from cuttings”, National Botanic Gardens, Canberra.

•  Glocke, P. and Sedgley, M. (1996) Acacia : propagate vegetatively. Australian Plants v. 18 : 320 - 322.

•  Hooper, S.D. and Maslin, B.R. (1978) Photogeography of Acacia in Western Australia. Australian Journal of Botany v. 26 : 63 - 78.

•  Kodela, P.S.G. and Tindale, M.D. (1998) The reduction of Acacia burkittii to Acacia acuminata subsp. burkittii. Telopea v. 7 (4) : 415 - 418.

•  Kodela, P.G. (1998) Notes on types of some Acacia species at the National Herbarium of NSW. Telopea v. 7 (4) : 419 - 423.

•  Lebler, B.A. (1979) Some Queensland wattles. Qld Agricultural Journal, Mar - Apr xi-xii, May - Jun xvii - xviii.

•  Lebler, B.A. (1979) Wattles of southeastern Queensland: flowers in globular heads – part 1. Qld Agricultural Journal, Nov - Dec. : 524 - 528.

•  Lebler, B.A. (1980) Wattles of southeastern Queensland: flowers in globular heads – part 2. Qld Agricultural Journal Jan - Feb. : 49 - 61.

•  Lebler, B.A. (1980) Wattles of southeastern Queensland: phyllodes with one prominent vein and head in axillary racemes. Qld Agricultural Journal Mar – Apr. : 127 - 144.

•  Lebler, B.A. (1980) Wattles of southeastern Queensland: phyllodes with two or more prominent veins. Qld Agricultural Journal May – Jun. : 259 - 270.

•  Maiden, J.H. and Blakely, W.F. (1927) Descriptions of fifty new species and six varieties of western and north Australian Acacias, and notes of four other species. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia v. 13 : 1 - 36.

•  Maslin, B.R. (1999) Edible wattle seeds of southern Australia. Australian Plants v. 20 : 56 - 58.

•  Maslin, B.R. and Cowan, R.S. (1994) William Vincent Firzgerald's species of Acacia (Leguminosae: Mimosoideae) in Australia. Part 1. typification of the names. Nuytsia v. 9 : 387 - 398.

•  Maslin, B.R. and Pedley, L. (1982) The distribution of Acacia (Leguminosae: Mimosoideae) in Australia. Part 1. Species distribution maps. Western Australian Herbarium Research Notes v. 6 : 1 - 128.

•  Maslin, B.R. and Thomson, L.A.J. (1992) Reappraisal of the taxonomy of Acacia holosericea A. Cunn. ex Don, including the description of a new species, A. colei, and the reinstatement of A. neurocarpa A.Cunn. ex Hook. Australian Systematic Botany v. 5 : 729 - 743.

•  Maslin, B.R (1995) Acacia Miscellany 13. Taxonomy of some Western Australian phyllocladinous and a phyllodinous taxa (Leguminosae: Mimosoideae) Nuytsia v. 10 (2) : 151 - 180.

•  Maslin, B.R (1995) Acacia Miscellany 14. Taxonomy of some Western Australian Racemosae species (Leguminosae: Mimosoideae : section Phyllodineae). Nuytsia v. 10 (2) : 181.

•  McDonald, M.W. and Maslin, B.R. (1997) Acacia cloei var. ileocarpa (Leguminosae : Mimosoideae), a new taxon from the tropical dry-zone of north-west Australia. Nuytsia v. 11 (2) : 219 - 223.

•  McDonald M.W. and Maslin, B.R. (2000) Taxonomic revision of the salwoods: Acacia aulacocarpa Cunn. ex Benth. and its allies (Leguminosae:Mimosoideae; section Juliflorae). Australian Systematic Botany v. 13 (1) : 21 - 78.

•  Pearn, J. (1993) Acacias and Aesculapius : Australian native wattles and the doctors they commemorate. Medical Journal of Australia v. 159 : 729 - 738.

•  Pedley, L. (1978) A revision of Acacia Mill. in Queensland. Austrobaileya v. 1 (2) : 75 - 234.

•  Pedley, L. (1986) A revision of Acacia Mill. in Queensland (concluded). Austrobaileya v. 1 : 235 - 337.

•  Pedley, L. (1986) Derivation and dispersal of Acacia (Leguminosae) with particular reference to Australia, and the recognition of Senegalia and Racosperma. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society no. 92 : 219 - 254.

•  Pedley, L. (1987) Racosperma Martius (Leguminosae: Mimosoideae) in Queensland: a checklist. Austrobaileya v. 2 (4) : 344 - 357.

•  Pedley, L. (1987) Generic status of Acacia sensu lato. Australian Systematic Botany Society Newsletter v. 53 (Dec) : 87 - 91.

•  Rogers, F.J.C. (1971) Acacias for Melbourne gardens. Australian Plants v. 6 : 154 - 155.

•  Sedgley, M & Harbard, J 1994, “Storing Acacia pollen successfully for breeding”, Australian Horticulture, February 1994.

•  Stodart, E 2001, “Gold and Green”, Panorama, Canberra Times , September 1, 2001, p9.

•  Thomson, L.A.J., Turnbull, J.W. and Maslin, B.R. (1994) The utilisation of Australian species of Acacia, with particular reference to those of the tropical dry zone. Journal of Arid Environments v. 27 : 279 - 295.

ASSOCIATION

•  Acacia Study Group, Society for Growing Australian Plants. Regular Newsletter published and held at the Gardens Library.

CD-ROMs

•  Maslin, B R, 2001, Wattle [cd-rom] : acacias of Australia, ABRS, Canberra, Dept of Conservation and Land Management, Perth.

INTERNET SITES

•  Acacias at the ANBG

•  Golden Wattle, the National Floral Emblem

•  The name Acacia retained for Australian wattles

•  Acacias (cut flowers and foliage) Rural Industries Research & Development Corporation

•  The Acacia Page

•  Lister, P.R. et al (1996) Acacia in Australia: ethnobotany and potential food crop. p. 228-236. In: J. Janick (ed.), Progress in new crops.

•  WattleWeb – Gardening with Wattles

•  World Wide Wattle  

•  Wattle Nymphs – art photography from the 1920s

 


Updated Wednesday, 20-Aug-97 19:48:53 EST, Murray Fagg (anbg-info@anbg.gov.au)