Short read assemblies of diverse Acacia species

The genus Acacia is the largest genus of plants in Australia, containing a remarkable amount of phenotype diversity and occupy all of the continent’s climatic zones (McLay et al. 2022; Renner et al. 2020; 2021). Multiple recent studies have reported the assembly of Acacia genomes at the chromosome level using long read technologies (A. pycnantha, McLay et al. 2022;* A. confusa*, Chen et al. 2024; A. crassicarpa, Massaro et al. 2024; A. melanoxylon, Zhang et al. 2025). However, these sequencing efforts have been relatively restricted with major phylogenetic sections remain unrepresented, including the section Botrycephalae and the sister genus Paraserianthes. Genomes from these groups will better enable analyses of leaf morphological evolution within the genus Acacia and a better understanding of the origin of the genus since splitting from Paraserianthes nearly 23 million years ago (Macphail and Hill 2001). In this work, we generate a number of short read draft assemblies for six unsequ..., , # Short read assemblies of diverse Acacia species Dataset DOI: [10.5061/dryad.gf1vhhn2k](https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.gf1vhhn2k) ## Description of the data and file structure Short read assemblies of seven *Acacia* species and *Paraserianthes lophantha*, as well as files describing the data used to construct the genomes, and a summary of the assembly statistics. ### Files and variables #### File: Acultriformis_v1.fa **Description:** Short read assembly of *A. cultriformis*. Built with Platanus v1.2.4. #### File: Apenninervis_v1.fa **Description:** Short read assembly of *A. penninervis*. Built with Platanus v1.2.4. #### File: Apustula_v1.fa **Description:** Short read assembly of *A. pustula*. Built with MaSuRCA v4.0.9. #### File: Apyrifolia_v1.fa **Description:** Short read assembly of *A. pyrifolia*. Built with Platanus v1.2.4. #### File: Arubida_v1.fa **Description:** Short read assembly of *A. rubida*. Built with Platanus v1.2.4. #### File: Aspectabilis_v1.fa **Desc..., , , **Changes after Oct 14, 2025:**  Two supplementary files added.