Acacia - Wattle

References to Australian Acacia publications

A selection of references prepared by the ANBG Library, September 2009

Biology, taxonomy and field guides

Orchard, AE & Wilson, AJG (eds) 2001, Flora of Australia. Volumes 11A & 11B, Mimosaceae, Acacia parts 1 & 2, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra, CSIRO, Melbourne. 2 vols.(673 p. & 536 p.) ISBN 0643067183 & 0643067205
Available via ABRS Flora of Australia Online website at: http://www.environment.gov.au/biodiversity/abrs/online-resources/flora/index.html

Maslin, B R, 2001, Wattle : acacias of Australia, ABRS, Canberra, Dept of Conservation and Land Management, Perth. ISBN 0643066063
Interactive identification CDROM.

Maslin, BR 2009, Australian species list,
Provides access to lists of Australian species via the World Wide Wattle website at: http://www.worldwidewattle.com/infogallery/specieslists/australia.php

Armitage, I 1977, Acacias of New South Wales, NSW Region of Society for Growing Australian Plants, [ Sydney]. 200 p.

Australian National Botanic Gardens 2008, The genus Acacia,
Available via the Internet at: http://www.anbg.gov.au/acacia/

Burbidge , NT 1961, The wattles of the Australian Capital Territory, Verity Hewitt, Canberra. [17] p.

Entwisle, RJ, Maslin, BR, Cowan, RS & Court, AB 1996, ‘Mimosaceae. 1. Acacia’, in, Walsh, NG & Entwisle, TJ (eds), Flora of Victoria. Volume 3, Inkata Press, Melbourne, pp. 585-656.

Kodela, PG & Harden, GJ 2002, ‘Mimosoideae. 5. Acacia’, in Harden, GJ (ed) Flora of New South Wales, Volume 2, rev. edn, NSW University Press, Kensington, NSW, pp. 381-476.
The Flora is available via the Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney PlantNET website at: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/

Lithgow, G 1997, 60 Wattles of the Chinchilla and Murilla Shires, The Author, Chinchilla, Qld. 80 p. ISBN 0646306065

Maslin, BR 2009, World Wide Wattle , website at: http://www.worldwidewattle.com/

Maslin, BR 2002, ‘The role and relevance of taxonomy in the conservation and utilization of Australian acacias’, Conservation Science Western Australia, vol. 4, no. 3, pp. 1-9.
Available via the Internet at: http://www.dec.wa.gov.au/images/stories/nature/science/cswa/v4n3/1-9.pdf

Maslin, BR & McDonald, MW 1996, A key to useful Australian acacias for the seasonally dry tropics, CSIRO Forestry & Forest Products, Collingwood. 80 p. ISBN 064305936

New, TR 1984, A biology of acacias, Oxford University Press, Melbourne. 153 p. ISBN 019554482X
Covers acacias in Australia, Africa and central America.

Pedley, L 1987, Acacias in Queensland, Dept of Primary Industries, Brisbane. 345 p. ISBN 0724224114

Rogers, FJC 1993, A field guide to Victorian wattles, 3rd edn, La Trobe University Press, Bundoora, Vic. 103 p. ISBN 1863240209

Simmons, MH 1981, Acacias of Australia, [Volume 1] Thomas Nelson, Melbourne. 325 p. ISBN 0170057798

Simmons, MH 1988, Acacias of Australia, Volume 2, Viking O’Neil, Ringwood, Vic.. 319 p. ISBN 0670901245

Tame, T 1992, Acacias of southeast Australia, Kangaroo Press, Kenthurst, N.S.W. 206 p. ISBN 0864174756

Western Australia . Dept of Environment & Conservation 2009, FloraBase : the Western Australian flora, website at: http://www.dec.wa.gov.au/florabase

Whibley, DJE & Symon, DE 1992, Acacias of South Australia, 2nd edn, Government Printer, South Australia. 328 p. no ISBN.
Electronic key and descriptions available via the State Herbarium of South Australia website at: http://www.flora.sa.gov.au/id_tool/acacia.html

Gardening

Acacia Study Group newsletter, 1961- .
Issues from no. 79, May 2001- available via the Internet at: http://www.worldwidewattle.com/socgroups/asg/

Australian National Botanic Gardens 2008, Commonly grown acacias, at http://www.anbg.gov.au/acacia/species.html

Australian Native Plants Society ( Australia) 2009, The Acacia page,
Available via the Internet at: http://asgap.org.au/acacia.html

Cross, R 2001, ‘Acacia leprosa ‘Scarlet Blaze’’, Australian Plants, vol. 21, no. 169, pp. 199-201.

Elliot, WR & Jones, DL 1982, ‘Acacia’, in, Encyclopaedia of Australian plants suitable for cultivation, Volume 2, Lothian, Melbourne, pp. 9-132. ISBN 0850911435

Hitchcock, M 2004, ‘Small acacias for the Australian garden’, Australian Plants, vol. 22, no. 180, pp. 306-322.

Hussey, BMJ 2002, ‘Wattle I plant for wildlife ?’, Conservation Science Western Australia, vol. 4, no. 3, pp. 62-71.
Available via the Internet at: http://www.dec.wa.gov.au/images/stories/nature/science/cswa/v4n3/62-71.pdf

Parletta, MA & Sedgley, M 1998, ‘Acacias as potted plants’, Acta Horticulturae, vol. 454, pp. 183-190.

Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney WattleWeb : gardening with wattle,
Available at: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/PlantNet/wattle/garden.html

Indigenous and economic use

Brockwell, J et al. 2005, Nitrogen fixation in acacias : an untapped resource for sustainable plantations, farm forestry and land reclamation, Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research, Canberra. 132 pp. ISBN 186320489X.
Available via the Internet in 2 parts at: http://www.aciar.gov.au/publication/MN115

Brown, AG & Ho, CK 1997, Black wattle and its utilisation, Abridged English ed., Rural Industries Research and Development Corporation, Barton, ACT. (RIRDC publication no. 97/72) 167 pp. ISBN 0643059458
Available via the Internet at: https://rirdc.infoservices.com.au/items/97-077

Horlock, F, Faragher, J & Jones, R 2000, Acacia cut flower and foliage production manual, Rural Industries Research and Development Corporation, Barton, ACT (RIRDC publication 00/57)
Available via the Internet at: https://rirdc.infoservices.com.au/items/00-057

House, APN & Harwood, CE (eds) 1992, Australian dry-zone acacias for human food, Australian Tree Seed Centre, CSIRO, Canberra. 145 p. ISBN 0643053409

Lister, PR, et al. 1996, ‘Acacia in Australia : ethnobotany and potential food crop’, in: J. Janick (ed.), Progress in new crops, ASHS Press, Alexandria, VA, pp. 228-236.
Available via the Internet at: http://www.hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/proceedings1996/v3-228.html

Maslin, BR et al. 1998, Edible wattle seeds of southern Australia : a review of species for use in semi-arid regions, CSIRO, Collingwood, Vic. 108 p. ISBN 0643063110

Maslin, BR & George, AS (eds) 2002, The conservation and utilisation potential of Australian dryland acacias: symposium held at Dalwallinu, Western Australia 13-14 July 2001,Dept of Conservation and Land Management, WA, Conservation Science Western Australia, vol. 4, no. 3, pp. 1-191.
Available via the Internet at: http://www.dec.wa.gov.au/science-and-research/publications-and-resources/conservation-science-wa-journal.html

Maslin, BR & McDonald, MW 2004, AcaciaSearch : evaluation of Acacia as a woody crop option for southern Australia, Rural Industries Research and Development Corporation, Barton, ACT. (RIRDC publication no. 03/017) 267 p. ISBN 0642585857
Available via the Internet at: https://rirdc.infoservices.com.au/items/03-017

Searle, S 2004, ‘Indigenous use of Australian acacias for food and medicine’, Australian Plants, vol. 22, no. 180, pp. 327-331.

Turnbull, JW (ed) 1987, Australian acacias in developing countries, Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research, Canberra. 196 p. ISBN 0949511269

History, art and culture

Australia . Dept of the Prime Minister and Cabinet 2009, National floral emblem.
Available via the Internet at: http://www.itsanhonour.gov.au/symbols/flora.cfm

Cam pbell , AJ 1921, Golden wattle : our national floral emblem, Osboldstone & Co., Melbourne. 63 p.
Some images and information available at: http://www.anbg.gov.au/campbell.wattle/

Campbell, I 2007, ‘’Yellow-haired September’: a reflection on the national floral emblem in AJ Campbell’s Golden Wattle’, Australian Humanities Review, Issue 41, 12 p.
Available via the Internet at: http://www.australianhumanitiesreview.org/archive/Issue-February-2007/EcoCampbell.html

Cavanagh, T 2006, ‘Historical aspects of wattles : the cultivation of Australian acacias in Great Britain and Europe during the 18 th and 19 th centuries’, in, Acacias 2006 : proceedings : Knowing and Growing Australian Wattles, 26-28 August 2006 6 th F.J.C. Rogers Seminar, Australian Plants Society (SGAP Victoria), Hawthorn, Vic & National Herbarium of Victoria, Melbourne, pp. 69-82.

Coleman, E 1943, Come back in wattle time : an illustrated handbook to our Australian wattles, 2nd ed., Robertson and Mullins, Melbourne. 39 p.
Available via the Internet at: http://www.slv.vic.gov.au/botanypam/inter/180947.shtml

Cowley, T & Beaton, E 2001, ‘The green and gold’, Australian Geographic, no. 61, p. 68-85.

Gibbs, M 1982, Wattle babies, Angus & Robertson, North Ryde, NSW. Facsimile of 1922 edition. 24 p. ISBN 0207145873

Hall, N 1984, Botanists of Australian acacias: short biographies of people who have named Australian species, whose names have been given to species or who have collected type material', CSIRO, Melbourne. 64 p.

Hall, N 1993, Supplement no. 1 to Botanists of Australian acacias (CSIRO 1984), CSIRO, Canberra. 19 p.

Hitchcock, M 1991, Wattle, Australian Government Publishing Service, Canberra. 190 p. ISBN 0644126787
Written by “the wattle lady” Maria Hitchcock, this book covers the history of Wattle Day and includes an anthology of wattle poems, stories and songs.

Hitchcock, M 2004, ‘History of Wattle Day’, Australian Plants, vol. 22, no. 180, pp. 294-299, 322.

Mueller, F von 1825-1896, Iconography of Australian species of Acacia and cognate genera, Government Printer, Melbourne.
130 plates of illustrations drawn by Robert Graff.
Available via the Internet at: http://www.archive.org/details/iconographyofaus00mueluoft

Ride, E 2007, ‘Wattle Days : from Adam Lindsay Gordon to Ginger Mick’, National Library of Australian News, vol. 17, no. 11, pp. 3-6.
Available via the Internet at: http://www.nla.gov.au/pub/nlanews/2007/aug07/story-1.pdf

Robin, L 2002, ‘Nationalising nature : Wattle Days in Australia’, Journal of Australian Studies, vol. 73, pp. 13-26, 219-223.
Available via the Internet at: http://www.api-network.com/jas/pdf/libby_robin.pdf

Searle, S 1991, The rise and demise of the black wattle bark industry in Australia, CSIRO Division of Forestry, Canberra. 42 p. ISBN 0643052313

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