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Nuytsia
The journal of the Western Australian Herbarium

William Vincent Fitzgerald’s species of Acacia (Leguminosae : Mimosoideae) : typification of names
MASLIN, B.R. AND COWAN, R.S.

William Vincent Fitzgerald described 33 new species of Acacia in four papers published between 1904 and 1917. Notes on these publications and on the specimens used by Fitzgerald are provided. Lectotypes are selected for 23 names, based on specimens located at BM (4), PERTH (6) and NSW (13).