Acacia brownianaH.L.Wendl.

WFO wfo-0001054000 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Acacia browniana, photographed by Ann Bentley
fig. a Ann Bentley, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-01-23 / obs. 177796600
Acacia browniana, photographed by Ann Bentley
fig. b Ann Bentley, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 163954548
Acacia browniana, photographed by Ann Bentley
fig. c Ann Bentley, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 156432859
Acacia browniana, photographed by Ann Bentley
fig. d Ann Bentley, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 102731889
Acacia browniana, photographed by Ann Bentley
fig. e Ann Bentley, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 96413131
Acacia browniana, photographed by Em Lamond
fig. f Em Lamond, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 90040807
Acacia browniana, photographed by Ann Bentley
fig. g Ann Bentley, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 86488931
Acacia browniana, photographed by Ann Bentley
fig. h Ann Bentley, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 52395756

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Native range 1 botanical country

Regions where Acacia browniana is native: Western Australia Western Australia
Native distribution of Acacia browniana, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Western Australia WAU AUSTRALASIA

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Where it actually grows measured, from 85 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low 5.8 °C 7.9 °C 9.9 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 22.7 °C 25.3 °C 27.0 °C
Annual rainfall 560 mm 1,016 mm 1,173 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 51 mm 76 mm 88 mm

It is barely found anywhere that freezes. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 85 research-grade observations of Acacia browniana that carry a coordinate, and this is the range those places actually span. The 5th and 95th percentiles are used rather than the minimum and maximum, because a single cultivated specimen in a heated conservatory should not widen a tropical plant's range to the Arctic.

This is not a hardiness zone. A USDA zone is the average annual extreme minimum temperature. The figure above is the mean daily minimum of the coldest month, which is a different quantity and is typically far warmer. Reading one as the other would place a plant several zones too warm, so we do not publish a hardiness zone, because we do not have one.

Also published as 17 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Acacia browniana var. brevifolia (Meisn.) Seem.
  • Acacia ciliata R.Br.
  • Acacia ciliata var. brevifolia (Meisn.) J.F.Macbr.
  • Acacia ciliata var. intermedia (E.Pritz.) J.F.Macbr.
  • Acacia endlicheri Meisn.
  • Acacia endlicheri Meissner
  • Acacia obscura A.DC.
  • Acacia strigosa Link
  • Acacia strigosa f. genuina Meisn.
  • Acacia strigosa var. brevifolia Meisn.
  • Acacia strigosa var. endlicheri (Meisn.) Benth.
  • Acacia strigosa var. intermedia E.Pritz.
  • Racosperma brownianum (H.L.Wendl.) Pedley
  • Racosperma brownianum var. endlicheri (Meisn.) Pedley
  • Racosperma brownianum var. glaucescens (Maslin) Pedley
  • Racosperma brownianum var. intermedium (E.Pritz.) Pedley
  • Racosperma brownianum var. obscurum (A.DC.) Pedley

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.