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Service Notice

The Western Australian Herbarium’s collections management system, WAHerb, and DBCA’s taxonomic names application, WACensus, have been set to read-only mode since 1 October 2025. Recent taxonomic changes are not reflected in Florabase, herbarium collections, or in the census. We are hoping to be able to reinstate services around December 15; we will provide an update at that time.

The notice period started at 9:00 am on Wednesday, 1 October 2025 +08:00 and will end at 12:00 pm on Monday, 15 December 2025 +08:00.

Vachellia suberosa (Benth.) Kodela
Corkybark Wattle

Reference
Telopea 11:240 (2006)
Conservation Code
Not threatened
Naturalised Status
Native to Western Australia
Name Status
Current

Tree or shrub (with thorns along branches), to 12 m high, bark pale to dark grey, deeply fissured. Black soils, grey cracking clay, alluvium, basalt,sandstone, ironstone. Floodplains, swampy sites, cracking clay plains, river levees, rocky hillsides.

Amanda Spooner, Descriptive Catalogue, 20 March 2007
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Distribution

IBRA Regions
Central Kimberley, Dampierland, Northern Kimberley, Ord Victoria Plain, Victoria Bonaparte.
IBRA Subregions
Fitzroy Trough, Hart, Keep, Mitchell, Mount Eliza, Pentecost, South Kimberley Interzone.
IMCRA Regions
Kimberley.
Local Government Areas (LGAs)
Derby-West Kimberley, Halls Creek, Wyndham-East Kimberley.