Acacia lachnocarpa (Fabaceae), a new, geographically restricted Wattle from the Coolgardie bioregion of Western Australia

Acacia Mill. is one of Australia’s most iconic plant groups and has long been the subject of highly focused taxonomic research (largely by Bruce Maslin, Richard Cowan and Les Pedley). Over the past 50 years, this research has led to the description of 390 new Western Australian taxa, of which 180 are conservation-listed (Western Australian Herbarium 1998–). There are still 75 informally named taxa in Western Australia that require further taxonomic research, including several recent discoveries of potentially rare taxa such as the species dealt with in this paper.