Taxon: Prosopis cineraria (L.) Druce

Common names:

• jandi   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  
• ghaf   (Source: Firewood Cr ) – Transliterated Arabic
  
• janum-chettu   (Source: Names Watson ) – India
  
• khejri   (Source: Firewood Cr ) – India
  
• jand   (Source: Phytologia 85:106.) – India (Punjabi)
  

Economic importance:

• Bee plants: honey production   (fide J AridEnv 27:9. 1994)
  
• Environmental: potential for agroforestry   (fide Firewood Cr)
  
• Environmental: revegetator   (fide Firewood Cr)
  
• Animal food: fodder   (fide Firewood Cr)
  
• Fuels: charcoal   (fide Firewood Cr)
  
• Fuels: fuelwood   (fide Firewood Cr)
  
• Medicines: folklore   (fide Herbs Commerce ed2)
  

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View ethnobotanical data from Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Distributional range:

• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Arabian Peninsula: Oman; Saudi Arabia; United Arab Emirates
  Western Asia: Afghanistan; Iran [s.]
• ASIA-TROPICAL
  Indian Subcontinent: India; Pakistan

References:

• Burkart, A. 1976. A monograph of the genus Prosopis (Leguminosae subfam. Mimosoideae). J. Arnold Arbor. 57:450.
• Fagg, C. W. & J. L. Stewart. 1994. The value of Acacia and Prosopis in arid and semi-arid environments. J. Arid Environm. 27:9.
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop (on-line resource).
• Ghazanfar, S. A. 1992. An annotated catalogue of the vascular plants of Oman. Scripta Botanica Belgica 2.
• Greuter, W. et al., eds. 2000. International code of botanical nomenclature (Saint Louis Code). Art. 53.6, Ex. 20.
• Luna, R. K. 1996. Plantation trees.
• McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. 2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2.
• Nasir, E. & S. I. Ali, eds. 1970–. Flora of [West] Pakistan.
• Nasir, S. M. & M. Athar. 1998. Fuelwood as an energy source. Phytologia 85:106.
• National Academy of Sciences. 1980. Firewood crops. Shrub and tree species for energy production.
• Norton, J. et al. 2009. Illustrated checklist of the flora of Qatar.
• Rechinger, K. H., ed. 1963–. Flora iranica.
• Watson, J. F. 1868. Index to the native and scientific names of Indian and other eastern economic plants and products.

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Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Prosopis cineraria.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Prosopis cineraria.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Prosopis cineraria.

Synonyms:

• (≡) Mimosa cineraria L. (basionym)
  
• (=) Prosopis spicigera L.
  (previously associated with 2 accessions)

Check other web resources for Prosopis cineraria (L.) Druce:

• ILDIS: World Database of Legumes
• Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
• ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
• Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.

Images or nodulation data:

• GRIN Images of germplasm accessions.
• Seed: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image
• Seeds: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image
• GRIN nodulation data

More:

• Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
• Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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