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

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:

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   (fide Fagg & Stewart, 1994)
  
• Environmental: revegetator   (fide Firewood Cr)
  
• Animal food: forage   (fide Econ Pl Aust)
  
• Fuels: charcoal   (fide Firewood Cr)
  
• Materials: wood   (fide Trop Leg)
  
• Weed   (fide Burkart, J Arn Arb 57:488.; Atlas WWeed)
  

Distributional range:

      Native:

• 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. (L Peru)
• Burkart, A. 1976. A monograph of the genus Prosopis (Leguminosae subfam. Mimosoideae). J. Arnold Arbor. 57:486.
• Fagg, C. W. & J. L. Stewart. 1994. J. Arid Environm. 27:9.
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop - on-line resource. (Ecocrop)
• Killeen, T. J. et al. 1993. Guia de arboles de Bolivia. (Trees Bolivia)
• Lazarides, M. & B. Hince. 1993. CSIRO Handbook of Economic Plants of Australia. (Econ Pl Aust)
• National Academy of Sciences. 1979. Tropical legumes: resources for the future. (Trop Leg)
• National Academy of Sciences. 1980. Firewood crops. Shrub and tree species for energy production. (Firewood Cr)

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Prosopis pallida.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Prosopis pallida. Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Synonyms:

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

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

• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• ILDIS: International Legume Database & Information Service
• 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.
  Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

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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Cite as:
USDA, ARS, National Genetic Resources Program.
Germplasm Resources Information Network - (GRIN) [Online Database].
National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland.
URL: http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?313266 (09 February 2010)

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