Taxon: Prosopis alba Griseb.

 
Genus: Prosopis
Family: Fabaceae (alt.Leguminosae)
Subfamily: Caesalpinioideae
Tribe: Mimoseae
Nomen number: 313261
Place of publication: Abh. Königl. Ges. Wiss. Göttingen 19:83; Pl. lorentz. 35. 1874
Link to protologue:
Typification:
Name Verified on: 04-sep-2007 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last Changed: 13-mar-2017
Species priority site is:
Accessions: 25 in National Plant Germplasm System (GoogleMap)

Common names:

Economic Importance:

  • Human food: fruit (dried fruits are grinded into flour fide Rico, pers. comm.)
  • Animal food: potential as fodder (fide Trop Leg)
  • Fuels: fuelwood (fide Firewood Cr)
  • Materials: wood (fide Trop Leg)

Distributional Range:

    Native

    Southern America
    • WESTERN SOUTH AMERICA: Bolivia, [Chuquisaca, La Paz, Santa Cruz, Tarija (s.)] Peru [Arequipa, Huancavelica]
    • SOUTHERN SOUTH AMERICA: Argentina, [Cordoba, Buenos Aires, Chaco, Corrientes, Entre Rios, Jujuy, Salta, San Luis, Santa Fe, Santiago del Estero, Tucuman] Paraguay


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. Killeen, T. J. et al. Guia de arboles de Bolivia. 1993 (Trees Bolivia)
  3. National Academy of Sciences Tropical legumes: resources for the future. 1979 (Trop Leg)
  4. National Academy of Sciences Firewood crops. Shrub and tree species for energy production. 1980 (Firewood Cr)
  5. Rico, L. & T. Pennington 2012. Review of Fabaceae Neotropical Mimosoideae data for World Economic Plants, ed. 2 (pers. comm.)
  6. 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)

Check other web resources for Prosopis alba Griseb. :

  • Flora del Conosur: Catálogo de las Plantas Vasculares del Conosur
  • TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
  • ILDIS: International Legume Database & Information Service
  • Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Databas 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.
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=313261. Accessed 7 junio 2026.