Genera in Australia
According to Flora of Australia, Vol 11, there were 955 species of Acacia s.l. in Australia. Meanwhile a series of new species has been described, bringing the total number for Australia to min. 988, Acacia pennata being the new type specimen.
New combinations in the Genus Vachellia from Australia have been made in 2006 by Kodela and Wilson (in telopea), see:
http://www.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/information_about_plants/Scientific_publications/telopea
Status 19.4.2014:
V. bidwillii
V. clarksoniana
V. ditricha
V. douglasica
V. pachyphloia
V. pallidifolia
V suberosa
V. sutherlandii
V. valida
not counting for Australia V. nilotica and V. farnesiana
Australian species of Genus Senegalia:
S. albizioides
S. angustissima (naturalized)
S. catechu
S. pennata
S. sinuata (naturalized)
all the other species remain in Genus Acacia:
Section Alatae, appr. 23 species
Section Botrycephalae, appr. 45 species
Section Juliflorae, appr. 280 species
Section Lycopodiifoliae, appr. 22 species
Section Acacia (was Phyllodineae), appr. 419 species
Section Plurinerves, appr. 221 species and
Section Pulchellae, appr. 26 species
a total of 1036 Acacia species