Santalum acuminatum(R.Br.) A.DC.

WFO wfo-0001034725 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Santalum acuminatum, photographed by T. Hammer
fig. a T. Hammer, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-12-01 / obs. 185497756
Santalum acuminatum, photographed by T. Hammer
fig. b T. Hammer, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 185498365
Santalum acuminatum, photographed by T. Hammer
fig. c T. Hammer, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 185494873
Santalum acuminatum, photographed by T. Hammer
fig. d T. Hammer, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 185182791
Santalum acuminatum, photographed by Andrew Thornhill
fig. e Andrew Thornhill, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 52471270
Santalum acuminatum, photographed by Kym Nicolson
fig. f Kym Nicolson, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 105079258
Santalum acuminatum, photographed by Kym Nicolson
fig. g Kym Nicolson, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 78436822
Santalum acuminatum, photographed by Cal Wood
fig. h Cal Wood, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 92563377

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Native range 6 botanical countries

Regions where Santalum acuminatum is native: New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia New South WalesNorthern TerritoryQueenslandSouth AustraliaVictoriaWestern Australia
Native distribution of Santalum acuminatum, 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
New South Wales NSW AUSTRALASIA
Northern Territory NTA
Queensland QLD
South Australia SOA
Victoria VIC
Western Australia WAU

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.

Flowering 32 in flower of 260 examined

Peak flowering in Jan. Each bar is the share of Santalum acuminatum observations in which someone actually recorded the reproductive state and found the plant in flower, not the raw number of flowering records. That distinction matters: people observe plants far more in spring than in winter, so a bare count of flowering records partly measures when people go outside. Dividing by the number examined removes that. 32 of 260 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. This is still a global aggregate and not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres. Where a species has fewer than 30 flowering records we do not draw this chart at all. Computed from 10.15468/dl.cgje2x.

Also published as 9 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.

  • Eucarya acuminata (R.Br.) Sprague & Summerh.
  • Fusanus acuminatus R.Br.
  • Fusanus acuminatus var. angustifolia (A.DC.) Benth.
  • Mida acuminata (R.Br.) Kuntze
  • Santalum angustifolium A.DC.
  • Santalum cognatum Miq.
  • Santalum densiflorum Gand.
  • Santalum preissianum Miq.
  • Santalum preissii F.Muell.

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.