Taxon: Prosopis pallida (Humb. & Bonpl. ex Willd.) Kunth

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A declared noxious weed by USDA-APHIS.

A declared aquatic or terrestrial noxious weed and/or noxious-weed seed in these U.S. states (see state noxious weed lists), with links to state information or web documents:

AL*, MA*, NC*.

ªAquatic.

*Terrestrial.

°In seed.

Link to noxious weed information from

Common names:

• kiawe   (Source: Firewood Cr ) – Hawaiian
  
• algarrobo   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – Spanish
  
• algarrobo americano   (Source: Firewood Cr ) – Spanish
  
• huarango   (Source: Firewood Cr ) – Spanish
  

Economic importance:

• Bee plants: honey production   (fide Fagg & Stewart, 1994)
  
• Environmental: revegetator   (fide Firewood Cr)
  
• Animal food: forage   (fide Econ Pl Aust)
  
• Fuels: charcoal   (fide Firewood Cr)
  
• Materials: tannin/dyestuff   (fide Rico, pers. comm.)
  
• Materials: wood   (fide Trop Leg)
  
• Weed   (fide Burkart, J Arn Arb 57:488. 1976; Atlas WWeed)
  

Distributional range:

• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Western South America: Bolivia - Chuquisaca; Colombia; Ecuador; Peru

References:

• Brako, L. & J. L. Zarucchi. 1993. Catalogue of the flowering plants and gymnosperms of Peru. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 45.
• Burkart, A. 1976. A monograph of the genus Prosopis (Leguminosae subfam. Mimosoideae). J. Arnold Arbor. 57:486.
• 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).
• Holm, L. et al. 1979. A geographical atlas of world weeds.
• Killeen, T. J. et al. 1993. Guia de arboles de Bolivia.
• Lazarides, M. & B. Hince. 1993. CSIRO Handbook of Economic Plants of Australia.
• National Academy of Sciences. 1979. Tropical legumes: resources for the future.
• National Academy of Sciences. 1980. Firewood crops. Shrub and tree species for energy production.
• Rico, L. & T. Pennington. 2012. Review of Fabaceae Neotropical Mimosoideae data for World Economic Plants, ed. 2. pers. comm.

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Prosopis pallida.

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

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Prosopis pallida.

Synonyms:

• (≡) Acacia pallida Humb. & Bonpl. ex Willd. (basionym)
  
• (=) Prosopis limensis Benth.
  

Check other web resources for Prosopis pallida (Humb. & Bonpl. ex Willd.) Kunth:

• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• 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:

• Disseminule drawings: U.S. National Seed Herbarium drawing
• 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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