
TY  - JOUR
A1  - McDonald, M. W. 
A1  - Maslin, B. R. 
T1  - 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
JF  - Australian Systematic Botany
JO  - Aust. Systematic Bot.
Y1  - 1997
VL  - 10
IS  - 3
SP  - 303
EP  - 320
KW  - 
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1071/SB96018 
N2  - 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. 
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