
%0 Journal Article
%A McDonald, M. W. 
%A Maslin, B. R. 
%T A Reappraisal of <emph type="2">Acacia cowleana</emph> and Allied Taxa, Including the Description of a New Species, <emph type="2">A. elachantha</emph>, from the Tropical Dry-zone of Australia
%J Australian Systematic Botany
%D 1997/09/02
%V 10
%N 3
%P 303-320
%K 
%R https://doi.org/10.1071/SB96018
%U https://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/SB96018 
%X The taxonomy of Acacia cowleana Tate is reviewed. In thepast this name had been applied to a broadly circumscribed entity which is nowtreated as two species, A. cowleana sensu typico andA. elachantha M.W.McDonald &#38; Maslin, sp. nov. Fullbotanical descriptions, illustrations and distribution maps are given.Acacia oligophleba Pedley is treated as conspecific withA. cowleana. A lectotype is selected forA. cowleana.Acacia cowleana andA. elachantha along with A. coleiMaslin &#38; L.Thomson, A. leptocarpa A.Cunn. ex Benth.,A. longispicata Benth.,A. thomsonii Maslin &#38; M.W.McDonald and anundescribed species from Wetar, Indonesia, constitute the informalA. cowleana group. The main distinguishing charactersfor the six described species in the group are given. 
