Taxon: Prosopis laevigata (Humb. & Bonpl. ex Willd.) M. C. Johnst.

 
Genus: Prosopis
Family: Fabaceae (alt.Leguminosae)
Subfamily: Caesalpinioideae
Tribe: Mimoseae
Nomen number: 100103
Place of publication: Brittonia 14:78. 1962
Link to protologue:
Typification:
Name Verified on: 04-sep-2007 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last Changed: 04-sep-2007
Species priority site is:
Accessions: 55 in National Plant Germplasm System (GoogleMap)

Synonyms:

Common names:

Economic Importance:

  • Environmental: potential for pollution control (fide Bioresource Technol 101:5862-5867. 2010)
  • Human food: fruit (fide Rico, pers. comm.)
  • Animal food: fodder (for beed, fide Rico, pers. comm.)
  • Materials: tannin/dyestuff (fide Rico, pers. comm.)
  • Materials: wood (fide Rico, pers. comm.)
  • Medicines: folklore (fide Herbs Commerce ed2)

Distributional Range:

    Native

    Northern America
    • SOUTH-CENTRAL U.S.A.: United States [Texas]
    • NORTHERN MEXICO: Mexico [Durango, Nuevo Leon, San Luis Potosi, Tamaulipas, Zacatecas]
    • SOUTHERN MEXICO: Mexico [Aguascalientes, Chiapas, Guanajuato, Guerrero, Hidalgo, Jalisco, Michoacan, Morelos, Oaxaca, Puebla, Queretaro, Veracruz]

    Southern America
    • WESTERN SOUTH AMERICA: Bolivia, [Chuquisaca, Cochabamba, La Paz] Peru [Arequipa, Cusco]
    • SOUTHERN SOUTH AMERICA: Argentina [Jujuy]


References:

  1. Brako, L. & J. L. Zarucchi Catalogue of the flowering plants and gymnosperms of Peru. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 45. 1993 (L Peru)
  2. Buendía-González, L. et al. 2010. Prosopis laevigata a potential chromium (VI) and cadmium (II) hyperaccumulator desert plant Bioresource Technol. 101:5862-5867.
  3. Hanelt, P., ed. Mansfeld's encyclopedia of agricultural and horticultural crops. Volumes 1-6. 2001 (Mansf Ency) 2:587.
  4. Killeen, T. J. et al. Guia de arboles de Bolivia. 1993 (Trees Bolivia)
  5. McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker Herbs of commerce, ed. 2. 2000 (Herbs Commerce ed2)
  6. McVaugh, R. Flora Novo-Galiciana. 1983- (F NGalicia)
  7. Rico, L. & T. Pennington 2012. Review of Fabaceae Neotropical Mimosoideae data for World Economic Plants, ed. 2 (pers. comm.)
  8. Zuloaga, F. O. & O. Morrone, eds. Catálogo de las plantas vasculares de la República Argentina. I. Pteridophyta, Gymnospermae y Angiospermae (Monocotyledonae), II. Dicotyledonae. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 60, 74. 1996, 1999 (L Argent)

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Cite as: USDA, Agricultural Research Service, National Plant Germplasm System. 2026. Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN-Taxonomy).
National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland. URL: http://germoplasma.iniaf.gob.bo/gringlobal/taxonomydetail.aspx?id=100103. Accessed 7 junio 2026.