Acacia kingiana Maiden & Blakely (1927:19)
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: Racosperma kingianum (Maiden & Blakely) Pedley in Austrobaileya 6: 471 (2003)
Conservation Status
Missing (Silcock et al., 2019:SM:6 [as "Likely extinct"], 2021:7 [as "probably extinct"]) or Extinct (Humphreys et al., 2019; Albani Rocchetti et al., 2022; POWO, 2023; Whitby, 2023:3408; Christenhusz & Govaerts, 2024)
Last (and only) record: 1 September 1923 (Cowan & Maslin, 2001:33; Silcock et al., 2019:SM:6 [as 1923]; Christenhusz & Govaerts, 2024 [as 1923])
Distribution & Habitat
near Wagin, Western Australia (southwest), Australia
Type locality: "Ten miles north-east of Wagin, in gravelly soil, in Wandoo forest (C.A. Gardner, No. 2004, September, 1923)" (?Maiden & Blakely, 1927:19?)
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Only known from a single collection: C.A.Gardner 1504 (Forest Dept. no. 2004); holo: NSW; iso: K, PERTH (Cowan & Maslin, 2001:33)
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Maiden, Joseph H. and Blakely, William F. (1927). Descriptions of fifty new species and six varieties of western and northern Australian Acacias, and notes on four other species. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 13: 19-22. [pl. 9, figs 7-11]
Other references:
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R.S.Cowan, B.R.Maslin. (2019). Acacia kingiana. In: Flora of Australia. Australian Biological Resources Study, Department of the Environment and Energy, Canberra. https://profiles.ala.org.au/opus/foa/profile/Acacia%20kingiana [Date Accessed: 13 January 2020]
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Humphreys, Aelys M., Govaerts, Rafaël, Ficinski, Sarah Z., Lughadha, Eimear Nic and Vorontsova, Maria S. (2019). Global dataset shows geography and life form predict modern plant extinction and rediscovery. Nature Ecology & Evolution 3: 1043-1047. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-019-0906-2 [Supplementary Dataset 1]
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Silcock, Jen L., Field, Ashley R., Walsh, Neville G. and Fensham, Roderick J. (2019). To name those lost: assessing extinction likelihood in the Australian vascular flora. Oryx 54(2): 167-177. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0030605318001357 [Supplementary Material]
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