Santalum album
The species was first described by Robert Brown, named in "Prodromus Florae Novae Hollandiae" (1810) as "Fusanus acuminatus", based on his type collection made at Fowlers Bay, South Australia, in 1802. Brown gave the Latin epithet "acuminatus" to denote the leaves – sharpened or pointed. The botanist Alphonse Pyrame de Candolle gave the current name in 1857, placing it in the genus "Santalum"; the genus containing Australian sandalwood, "Santalum spicatum", and white sandalwood, "Santalum album". Several botanical names have been deemed to be synonymous with "Santalum acuminatum", as described in "Flora of Australia" (1984) and the "Australian Plant Census" (2006), these include: "Santalum preissii" F.Muell. in "Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae" (1861); "Santalum cognatum" and "Santalum preissianum" of Miquel (1845); and "Santalum densiflorum" Gand. (1919).