On the Classification of Australian Acacias

Abstract

The Australian acacias have been examined in considerable detail, via extensive morphological and anatomical observation and numerical analyses involving 171 species. This work has provided further evidence of the need -to divide Australian Acacia taxonomically into two main series, associating the bipinnate-leaved Botryocephalae closely with the uninerved phyllodinous species and separating them from the Pulchellae. It has also made available a large body of morphological and anatomical data, suitable for generating special purpose keys and potentially useful for other purposes.