Acacia, the Glossary
Acacia, commonly known as wattles or acacias, is a genus of about of shrubs and trees in the subfamily Mimosoideae of the pea family Fabaceae.[1]
Table of Contents
114 relations: Abkhazia, Aboriginal Australians, Acacia aneura, Acacia baileyana, Acacia dealbata, Acacia heterophylla, Acacia koa, Acacia mangium, Acacia mearnsii, Acacia penninervis, Acacia pravissima, Acacia saligna, Acacia sensu lato, Acaciella, Addison Brown, Adhesive, Alamy, Ancient Greek, Anthony Orchard, Archidendron, Archidendropsis, Aril, Augustin Pyramus de Candolle, Australasia, Australia, Brigalow Belt, Bruce Maslin, Canberra, Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius, Carl Linnaeus, Common name, Constantine Samuel Rafinesque, Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry (Australia), Deposit account, Dubious dtella, Eocene, Eremaean province, Eucalyptus, Fabaceae, Fossil, Franz Sieber, Gaspard Bauhin, Georgia (country), Glossary of plant morphology, Hackerobrachys, Hawaii, Hungary, International Botanical Congress, Jalmenus, Jalmenus evagoras, ... Expand index (64 more) »
Abkhazia
Abkhazia, officially the Republic of Abkhazia, is a partially recognised state in the South Caucasus, on the eastern coast of the Black Sea, at the intersection of Eastern Europe and Western Asia.
Aboriginal Australians
Aboriginal Australians are the various Indigenous peoples of the Australian mainland and many of its islands, excluding the ethnically distinct people of the Torres Strait Islands.
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Acacia aneura
Acacia aneura, commonly known as mulga or true mulga, is a shrub or small tree native to arid outback areas of Australia.
Acacia baileyana
Acacia baileyana or Cootamundra wattle is a shrub or tree in the flowering plant family Fabaceae. The scientific name of the species honours the botanist Frederick Manson Bailey. It is indigenous to a very small area in southern inland New South Wales, comprising Temora, Cootamundra, Stockinbingal and Bethungra districts.
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Acacia dealbata
Acacia dealbata, the silver wattle, blue wattle or mimosa, is a species of flowering plant in the legume family Fabaceae, native to southeastern Australia in New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania, and the Australian Capital Territory, and widely introduced in Mediterranean, warm temperate, and highland tropical landscapes.
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Acacia heterophylla
Acacia heterophylla, the highland tamarind, is a tree (or shrub in its higher places) endemic to Réunion island where it is commonly named tamarin des hauts The tree has a juvenile stage where its leaves have a pinnate arrangement, but in the adult stage the leaves diminish and the phyllode becomes the dominant photosynthetic structure.
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Acacia koa
Acacia koa, commonly known as koa, is a species of flowering tree in the family Fabaceae.
Acacia mangium
Acacia mangium is a species of flowering tree in the pea family, Fabaceae, that is native to northeastern Queensland in Australia, the Western Province of Papua New Guinea, Papua, and the eastern Maluku Islands.
Acacia mearnsii
Acacia mearnsii, commonly known as black wattle, late black wattle or green wattle, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to south-eastern Australia.
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Acacia penninervis
Acacia penninervis, commonly known as mountain hickory wattle, or blackwood, is a perennial shrub or tree is an Acacia belonging to subgenus Phyllodineae, that is native to eastern Australia.
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Acacia pravissima
Acacia pravissima, commonly known as Ovens wattle, Oven wattle, wedge-leaved wattle and Tumut wattle, is a species of flowering plant in the legume family Fabaceae.
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Acacia saligna
Acacia saligna, commonly known by various names including coojong, golden wreath wattle, orange wattle, blue-leafed wattle, Western Australian golden wattle, and, in Africa, Port Jackson willow, is a small tree in the family Fabaceae.
Acacia sensu lato
Acacia s.l. (pronounced or), known commonly as mimosa, acacia, thorntree or wattle, is a polyphyletic genus of shrubs and trees belonging to the subfamily Mimosoideae of the family Fabaceae.
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Acaciella
Acaciella is a Neotropical genus of flowering plants in the legume family, Fabaceae, and its subfamily Mimosoideae. Acacia and Acaciella are Fabaceae genera and mimosoids.
Addison Brown
Addison C. Brown (February 21, 1830 – April 9, 1913) was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, a botanist, and a serious amateur astronomer.
Adhesive
Adhesive, also known as glue, cement, mucilage, or paste, is any non-metallic substance applied to one or both surfaces of two separate items that binds them together and resists their separation.
Alamy
Alamy Limited (d/b/a alamy) is a British privately owned stock photography agency launched in September 1999.
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Ancient Greek
Ancient Greek (Ἑλληνῐκή) includes the forms of the Greek language used in ancient Greece and the ancient world from around 1500 BC to 300 BC.
Anthony Orchard
Anthony Orchard (born 22 May 1946) is a retired botanist who worked at the State Herbarium of South Australia.
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Archidendron
Archidendron is a genus of flowering plants in the pea family, Fabaceae. Acacia and Archidendron are Fabaceae genera and mimosoids.
Archidendropsis
Archidendropsis is a genus of flowering plants in the family Fabaceae. Acacia and Archidendropsis are Fabaceae genera and mimosoids.
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Aril
An aril (pronounced), also called an arillus, is a specialized outgrowth from a seed that partly or completely covers the seed.
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Augustin Pyramus de Candolle
Augustin Pyramus (or Pyrame) de Candolle (4 February 17789 September 1841) was a Swiss botanist.
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Australasia
Australasia is a subregion of Oceania, comprising Australia, New Zealand, and some neighbouring islands in the Pacific Ocean.
Australia
Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands.
Brigalow Belt
The Brigalow Belt is a wide band of acacia-wooded grassland that runs between tropical rainforest of the coast and the semi-arid interior of Queensland and northern New South Wales, Australia. The Interim Biogeographic Regionalisation for Australia (IBRA) divides the Brigalow Belt into two IBRA regions, or bioregions, Brigalow Belt North (BBN) and Brigalow Belt South (BBS).
Bruce Maslin
Bruce Roger Maslin (born 3 May 1946) is an Australian botanist, known for his work on Acacia taxonomy.
Canberra
Canberra is the capital city of Australia.
Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius
Carl Friedrich Philipp (Karl Friedrich Philipp) von Martius (17 April 1794 – 13 December 1868) was a German botanist and explorer.
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Carl Linnaeus
Carl Linnaeus (23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778), also known after ennoblement in 1761 as Carl von Linné,Blunt (2004), p. 171.
Common name
In biology, a common name of a taxon or organism (also known as a vernacular name, English name, colloquial name, country name, popular name, or farmer's name) is a name that is based on the normal language of everyday life; and is often contrasted with the scientific name for the same organism, which is often based in Latin.
Constantine Samuel Rafinesque
Constantine Samuel Rafinesque-Schmaltz (22 October 178318 September 1840) was a French early 19th-century polymath born near Constantinople in the Ottoman Empire and self-educated in France.
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Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry (Australia)
The Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry (DAFF) is an Australian government department that was created on 1 July 2022, as part of the previous Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment.
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Deposit account
A deposit account is a bank account maintained by a financial institution in which a customer can deposit and withdraw money.
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Dubious dtella
The dubious dtella, native Australian house gecko, or dubious four-clawed gecko (Gehyra dubia) is a species of gecko in the genus Gehyra, native to Northeastern Australia (Queensland and northern New South Wales as well as islands of the Great Barrier Reef and the Torres Strait).
Eocene
The Eocene is a geological epoch that lasted from about 56 to 33.9 million years ago (Ma).
Eremaean province
The Eremaean province is a botanical region in Western Australia, characterised by a desert climate.
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Eucalyptus
Eucalyptus is a genus of more than 700 species of flowering plants in the family Myrtaceae.
Fabaceae
The Fabaceae or Leguminosae, Article 18.5 states: "The following names, of long usage, are treated as validly published:....Leguminosae (nom. alt.: Fabaceae; type: Faba Mill.);...
Fossil
A fossil (from Classical Latin) is any preserved remains, impression, or trace of any once-living thing from a past geological age.
Franz Sieber
Franz Wilhelm Sieber (30 March 1789 – 17 December 1844), was a botanist and collector who travelled to Europe, the Middle East, Southern Africa and Australia.
Gaspard Bauhin
Gaspard Bauhin or Caspar Bauhin (Casparus Bauhinus; 17 January 1560 – 5 December 1624), was a Swiss botanist whose Pinax theatri botanici (1623) described thousands of plants and classified them in a manner that draws comparisons to the later binomial nomenclature of Linnaeus.
Georgia (country)
Georgia is a transcontinental country in Eastern Europe and West Asia.
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Glossary of plant morphology
This page provides a glossary of plant morphology.
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Hackerobrachys
Hackerobrachys is an Australian genus of planthoppers in the family Eurybrachidae.
Hawaii
Hawaii (Hawaii) is an island state of the United States, in the Pacific Ocean about southwest of the U.S. mainland.
Hungary
Hungary is a landlocked country in Central Europe.
International Botanical Congress
International Botanical Congress (IBC) is an international meeting of botanists in all scientific fields, authorized by the International Association of Botanical and Mycological Societies (IABMS) and held every six years, with the location rotating between different continents.
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Jalmenus is a genus of butterflies in the family Lycaenidae.The genus is endemic to Australia.
Jalmenus evagoras, the imperial hairstreak, imperial blue, or common imperial blue, is a small, metallic blue butterfly of the family Lycaenidae.
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Johann Georg Christian Lehmann
Johann Georg Christian Lehmann (25 February 1792 – 12 February 1860) was a German botanist.
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Johann Heinrich Friedrich Link
Johann Heinrich Friedrich Link (2 February 1767 – 1 January 1851) was a German naturalist and botanist.
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Legume
Legumes are plants in the family Fabaceae (or Leguminosae), or the fruit or seeds of such plants.
Leslie Pedley
Leslie Pedley (19 May 1930 – 27 November 2018)IPNI.
List of Acacia species
There are about 1080 species of Acacia accepted by Plants of the World Online as at November 2023, with species native to Australia, New Guinea, Southeast Asia, Hawaii and the Mascarene Islands, and introduced to other countries.
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List of Acacia species known to contain psychoactive alkaloids
This article is a list of Acacia species (sensu lato) that are known to contain psychoactive alkaloids, or are suspected of containing such alkaloids due to being psychoactive.
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Mariosousa
Mariosousa is a genus of 13 species of flowering plants in the family Fabaceae. Acacia and Mariosousa are Fabaceae genera and mimosoids.
Mauritius
Mauritius, officially the Republic of Mauritius, is an island nation in the Indian Ocean, about off the southeastern coast of East Africa, east of Madagascar.
Melbourne
Melbourne (Boonwurrung/Narrm or Naarm) is the capital and most populous city of the Australian state of Victoria, and the second-most populous city in Australia, after Sydney.
Mimosa
Mimosa is a genus of about 600 species of herbs and shrubs, in the mimosoid clade of the legume family Fabaceae. Acacia and mimosa are Fabaceae genera and mimosoids.
Mimosoideae
The Mimosoideae are a traditional subfamily of trees, herbs, lianas, and shrubs in the pea family (Fabaceae) that mostly grow in tropical and subtropical climates. Acacia and Mimosoideae are mimosoids.
Miocene
The Miocene is the first geological epoch of the Neogene Period and extends from about (Ma).
Mongabay
Mongabay (mongabay.com) is an American conservation news web portal that reports on environmental science, energy, and green design, and features extensive information on tropical rainforests, including pictures and deforestation statistics for countries of the world.
Monophyly
In biological cladistics for the classification of organisms, monophyly is the condition of a taxonomic grouping being a clade – that is, a grouping of taxa which meets these criteria.
Myall Lakes National Park
Myall Lakes National Park is a national park located in New South Wales, Australia, north of Sydney.
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Nathaniel Lord Britton
Nathaniel Lord Britton (1859 – 1934) was an American botanist and taxonomist who co-founded the New York Botanical Garden in the Bronx, New York.
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Natural History Museum, London
The Natural History Museum in London is a museum that exhibits a vast range of specimens from various segments of natural history.
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Neo-Latin
Neo-LatinSidwell, Keith Classical Latin-Medieval Latin-Neo Latin in; others, throughout.
New Guinea
New Guinea (Hiri Motu: Niu Gini; Papua, fossilized Nugini, or historically Irian) is the world's second-largest island, with an area of.
Nicolaas Laurens Burman
Nicolaas Laurens Burman (27 December 1734 – 11 September 1793) was a Dutch botanist.
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Old English
Old English (Englisċ or Ænglisc), or Anglo-Saxon, was the earliest recorded form of the English language, spoken in England and southern and eastern Scotland in the early Middle Ages.
Oligocene
The Oligocene is a geologic epoch of the Paleogene Period and extends from about 33.9 million to 23 million years before the present (to). As with other older geologic periods, the rock beds that define the epoch are well identified but the exact dates of the start and end of the epoch are slightly uncertain.
Panicle
A panicle is a much-branched inflorescence.
Pararchidendron
Pararchidendron pruinosum is an Australian rainforest tree growing from the Shoalhaven River (34° S) in New South Wales to Herberton (17° S) in north Queensland. Acacia and Pararchidendron are mimosoids.
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Paraserianthes
Paraserianthes lophantha (syn. Albizia lophantha), the Cape Leeuwin wattle, Bicol wattle, Cape wattle, crested wattle or plume albizia, is a fast-growing tree with creamy-yellow, bottlebrush like flowers. Acacia and Paraserianthes are mimosoids.
Paris Basin
The Paris Basin (Bassin parisien) is one of the major geological regions of France.
Pedanius Dioscorides
Pedanius Dioscorides (Πεδάνιος Διοσκουρίδης,; 40–90 AD), "the father of pharmacognosy", was a Greek physician, pharmacologist, botanist, and author of (On Medical Material), a 5-volume Greek encyclopedia about herbal medicine and related medicinal substances (a pharmacopeia), that was widely read for more than 1,500 years.
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Philip Miller
Philip Miller FRS (1691 – 18 December 1771) was an English botanist and gardener of Scottish descent.
Phyllode
Phyllodes are modified petioles or leaf stems, which are leaf-like in appearance and function.
Plantation
Plantations are farms specializing in cash crops, usually mainly planting a single crop, with perhaps ancillary areas for vegetables for eating and so on.
Pliocene
The Pliocene (also Pleiocene) is the epoch in the geologic time scale that extends from 5.333 million to 2.58 million years ago.
Pollen
Pollen is a powdery substance produced by most types of flowers of seed plants for the purpose of sexual reproduction.
Proto-Germanic language
Proto-Germanic (abbreviated PGmc; also called Common Germanic) is the reconstructed proto-language of the Germanic branch of the Indo-European languages.
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Raceme
A raceme or racemoid is an unbranched, indeterminate type of inflorescence bearing flowers having short floral stalks along the shoots that bear the flowers.
Réunion
La Réunion, "La Reunion"; La Réunion; Reunionese Creole; previously known as Île Bourbon.
Reed Publishing
Reed Publishing (NZ) Ltd (formerly A. H. Reed Ltd and A. H. and A. W. Reed Ltd) was one of the leading publishers in New Zealand.
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Royal Botanic Garden, Sydney
The Royal Botanic Garden, Sydney is a heritage-listed major botanical garden, event venue and public recreation area located at Farm Cove on the eastern fringe of the Sydney central business district, in the City of Sydney local government area of New South Wales, Australia.
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Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria
Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria are botanic gardens across two sites–Melbourne and Cranbourne.
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Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew is a non-departmental public body in the United Kingdom sponsored by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.
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Senegalia
Senegalia (from Senegal and Acacia senegal (L.) Willd.) is a genus of flowering plants in the family Fabaceae. Acacia and Senegalia are Fabaceae genera and mimosoids.
Sensu
Sensu is a Latin word meaning "in the sense of".
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Sepal
A sepal is a part of the flower of angiosperms (flowering plants).
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Skyhorse Publishing
Skyhorse Publishing, Inc. is an American independent book publishing company founded in 2006 and headquartered in New York City, with a satellite office in Brattleboro, Vermont.
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Sodium fluoroacetate
Sodium fluoroacetate, also known as compound 1080, is an organofluorine chemical compound with the chemical formula.
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Southeast Asia
Southeast Asia is the geographical southeastern region of Asia, consisting of the regions that are situated south of China, east of the Indian subcontinent, and northwest of the Australian mainland, which is part of Oceania.
Stamen
The stamen (stamina or stamens) is the pollen-producing reproductive organ of a flower.
State Herbarium of South Australia
The State Herbarium of South Australia, sometimes called the South Australian Herbarium, and having the herbarium code, AD, is located in Adelaide, South Australia.
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Stipule
In botany, a stipule is an outgrowth typically borne on both sides (sometimes on just one side) of the base of a leafstalk (the petiole).
Style (botany)
In botany, the style of an angiosperm flower is an organ of variable length that connects the ovary to the stigma.
Switzerland
Switzerland, officially the Swiss Confederation, is a landlocked country located in west-central Europe.
Tannin
Tannins (or tannoids) are a class of astringent, polyphenolic biomolecules that bind to and precipitate proteins and various other organic compounds including amino acids and alkaloids.
Tanning (leather)
Tanning, or hide tanning, is the process of treating skins and hides of animals to produce leather.
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Tertiary
Tertiary is an obsolete term for the geologic period from 66 million to 2.6 million years ago.
The Gardeners Dictionary
The Gardeners Dictionary was a widely cited reference series, written by Philip Miller (1691–1771), which tended to focus on plants cultivated in England.
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Type (biology)
In biology, a type is a particular specimen (or in some cases a group of specimens) of an organism to which the scientific name of that organism is formally associated.
Type species
In zoological nomenclature, a type species (species typica) is the species name with which the name of a genus or subgenus is considered to be permanently taxonomically associated, i.e., the species that contains the biological type specimen (or specimens).
United States Department of the Army
The United States Department of the Army (DA) is one of the three military departments within the Department of Defense of the U.S. The Department of the Army is the federal government agency within which the United States Army (U.S.) is organized, and it is led by the secretary of the Army, who has statutory authority under 10 United States Code § 7013 to conduct its affairs and to prescribe regulations for its government, subject to the limits of the law, and the directions of the secretary of defense and the president.
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Vachellia
Vachellia is a genus of flowering plants in the legume family, Fabaceae, commonly known as thorn trees or acacias. Acacia and Vachellia are Fabaceae genera and mimosoids.
Vachellia nilotica
Vachellia nilotica, more commonly known as Acacia nilotica, and by the vernacular names of gum arabic tree, babul, thorn mimosa, Egyptian acacia or thorny acacia, is a flowering tree in the family Fabaceae.
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Vietnam
Vietnam, officially the (SRV), is a country at the eastern edge of mainland Southeast Asia, with an area of about and a population of over 100 million, making it the world's fifteenth-most populous country.
Wallaceodendron
Wallaceodendron celebicum is species of flowering plant in the legume family, Fabaceae. Acacia and Wallaceodendron are mimosoids.
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Wattle (construction)
Wattle is made by weaving flexible branches around upright stakes to form a woven lattice.
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Wattleseed
Wattleseeds are the edible seeds from any of 120 species of Australian Acacia that were traditionally used as food by Aboriginal Australians, and eaten either green (and cooked) or dried (and milled to a flour) to make a type of bush bread.
William Franklin Wight
William Franklin Wight (born 18 June 1874 in Allegan, Michigan - died 2 February 1954) was an American botanist.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acacia
Also known as Acacia (Racosperma), Acacia bark, Acacia richii, Acacia tree, Acacia trees, Acacias, Acaecia, Acaesia, Acasia, Accacias, Acecia, Acesia, Akecia, Akesia, Bullthorn Acacia, Esclerona, Racosperma, Sprig of Acacia, Wattle bark, Yellow fever acacia.
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