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Acacia albicans Kunth, Mimoses 87, t. 27 (1821)
Name Status. Non-Current Name
Name Type. Basionym Source. Barneby & Grimes (1996: 171)
Accepted Name. Havardia albicans (Kunth) Britton & Rose
Notes. Nicholson (1887) described an Acacia albicans (no author given) from the 'Swan River' (i.e. southwest Western Australia). The identity of Nicholson's plant cannot be ascertained with certainty, even though the leaf characters he described are not inconsistent with those of Havardia albicans Kunth. There is no Acacia species in W.A. that matches Nicholson’s description. Therefore, in the absence of evidence to the contrary, Nicholson’s description is here regarded as applying to Kunth’s species and that Nicholson erred in referring this Mexican species to Australia.
A reformatted, French-language version of Nicholson’s description of A. albicans was subsequently published by Mouillefert in 1893. This entry was inadvertently regarded by the Australian Plant Name Index (APNI web version, accessed August 2017) as the basis of a new species, namely, A. albicans Humb. & Bonpl. ex Mouill., Mouillefert, P. in Bois, D.G.J.M. (1893), Acacia. Dictionnaire d’Horticultur 1(1). If the plant described by Nicholson and Mouillefert were regarded as a new species distinct from that of Kunth, then it should be cited as: A. albicans G.Nicholson, Ill. Dict. Gard. 1: 5 (1887). However, as already noted, WorldWideWattle does not consider the Nicholson as having described a new species.
TYPE INFORMATION
Type Designation. Holotype: "… in litore Maris Antillarum, prope Campeche Mexicanorum" (P-HBK) ". Source. Barneby & Grimes (1998a: 171).
