Acacia melanoxylon

Australian blackwood
Flowering twigs of Acacia melanoxylon
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Fabales
Family: Fabaceae
Subfamily: Caesalpinioideae
Clade: Mimosoid clade
Genus: Acacia
Species:
A. melanoxylon
Binomial name
Acacia melanoxylon
R.Br.
Range of Acacia melanoxylon
Synonyms
  • Acacia arcuata Spreng.
  • Acacia melanoxylon R.Br. var. arcuata (Spreng.) Ser.
  • Acacia melanoxylon R.Br. var. obtusifolia Ser.
  • Acacia melanoxylum R.Br.
  • Mimosa melanoxylon (R.Br.) Poir.
  • Racosperma melanoxylon (R.Br.) C.Mart.
  • Racosperma melanoxylon (R.Br.) Pedley

Acacia melanoxylon, commonly known as the Australian blackwood, is an Acacia species native to south-eastern Australia. The species is also known as blackwood, hickory, mudgerabah, Tasmanian blackwood, or blackwood acacia. The tree belongs to the Plurinerves section of Acacia and is one of the most wide-ranging tree species in eastern Australia and is quite variable mostly in the size and shape of the phyllodes.

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