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The genus Acacia is approaching taxonomic schism between the African and Australian species. At present Plants of the World online is maintaining them all as Acacia
but at any moment the genus could fall apart and this might become Racosperma jibberdingensis. The contovery surrounding the change has not yet been resolved. I was given a seedling of this species from Western Australia but I didn't manage to keep it through the first winter so this is the only picture. The Atlas of Living Australia says: "The species was first formally described by the botanists Joseph Maiden and William Blakely in 1927 as part of the work Descriptions of fifty new species and six varieties of western and northern Australian Acacias, and notes on four other species as published in the Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia. It was reclassified as Racosperma jibberdingense by Leslie Pedley in 2003 then was transferred back to genus Acacia in 2006. The type specimen was collected by M.Koch in 1960 at Jibberding near Dalwallinu. It is native to an area in the Mid West, Wheatbelt and Goldfields regions of Western Australia where it is often found among granite outcrops growing is sandy loamy soils. The population is scattered from Mullewa and Jingemarra Station in the north down to around Peak Charles National Park in the south east where it is mostly found in shrubland communities. |
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| 17th October 2018 | ||
