Prosopis juliflora

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Prosopis juliflora
Young tree
Young tree
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Division: Magnoliophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
Subclass: Rosidae
(unranked) Eurosids I
Order: Fabales
Family: Fabaceae
Subfamily: Mimosoideae
Tribe: Mimoseae
Genus: Prosopis
Species: P. juliflora
Binomial name
Prosopis juliflora
(Sw.) DC.
Synonyms

Many, see text

Prosopis juliflora (bayahonda blanca) is a shrub or small tree native to Mexico, South America and the Caribbean. It has been introduced into Asia, Australia and elsewhere. Its uses include forage, wood and environmental mangagement.[1] The tree grows to a height of up to 12 m and has a trunk with a diameter of up to 1.2 m.[2]

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[edit] Nomenclature

[edit] Vernacular names

This is a well-known plant in its native range as well as in India, having a range of vernacular names. It is called bayahonda blanca in Spanish and bayarone Français in French. Similar names are also used, including bayahonde, bayahonda and bayarone but these may also refer to any other Neotropical member of the genus Prosopis.

It is known by a range of other names in various parts of the world, including algarrobe, cambrón, cashaw, épinard, mesquite or mostrenco. In Hindi it is called Kabuli kikar, vilayati babul, vilayati khejra or vilayati kikar. The first of these means "Kabul acacia", the others mean, approximately, "introduced acacia". Many of the less-specific names are due to the fact that over large parts of its range, it is the most familiar and common species of Prosopis, and thus to locals simply "the" bayahonde, algarrobe, etc. "Velvet mesquite" is sometimes given as an English name, but properly refers to a different species, Prosopis velutina.[2]

In the Wayuu language, spoken on the La Guajira Peninsula in northern Colombia and Venezuela, it is called trupillo or turpío.[3]

[edit] Synonyms

This plant has been described under a number of now-invalid scientific names:[1]

  • Acacia cumanensis Willd.
  • Acacia juliflora (Sw.) Willd.
  • Acacia salinarum (Vahl) DC.
  • Algarobia juliflora (Sw.) Heynh.
Algarobia juliflora as defined by George Bentham refers only to the typical variety, Prosopis juliflora var. juliflora (Sw.) DC
  • Desmanthus salinarum (Vahl) Steud.
  • Mimosa juliflora Sw.
  • Mimosa piliflora Sw.
  • Mimosa salinarum Vahl
  • Neltuma bakeri Britton & Rose
  • Neltuma juliflora (Sw.) Raf.
  • Neltuma occidenatlis Britton & Rose
  • Neltuma occidentalis Britton & Rose
  • Neltuma pallescens Britton & Rose
  • Prosopis bracteolata DC.
  • Prosopis cumanensis (Willd.) Kunth
  • Prosopis domingensis DC.
  • Prosopis dulcis Kunth var. domingensis (DC.)Benth.
Carl Sigismund Kunth's Prosopis dulcis is Prosopis laevigata. P. dulcis as described by William Jackson Hooker is Caldén (P. caldenia).
Parts drawing from the 1880-1883 edition of Francisco Manuel Blanco's Flora de Filipinas.Blanco already suspected that Prosopis vidaliana, described not long ago, was identical with bayahonda blanca.
Parts drawing from the 1880-1883 edition of Francisco Manuel Blanco's Flora de Filipinas.
Blanco already suspected that Prosopis vidaliana, described not long ago, was identical with bayahonda blanca.

Prosopis chilensis (Molina) Stuntz was sometimes considered to belong here too, but it is usually considered a good species these days.[2] Several other authors misapplied P. chilensis to Honey Mesquite (P. glandulosa).[1]

[edit] Gallery

Trunk and spines. Hodal, Faridabad District, Haryana (India).

Branch with leaves and spines. Hodal, Faridabad District, Haryana (India).

Flowers. Hodal, Faridabad District, Haryana (India).

Pods. Hodal, Faridabad District, Haryana (India).

Seeds.

[edit] Footnotes

  1. ^ a b c Prosopis juliflora - ILDIS LegumeWeb. www.ildis.org. Retrieved on 2008-05-01.
  2. ^ a b c Prosopis juliflora. www.hort.purdue.edu. Retrieved on 2008-05-01.
  3. ^ Villalobos et al. (2007)

[edit] References

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  • Duke, James A. (1983): Prosopis juliflora DC.. In: Handbook of Energy Crops. Purdue University Center for New Crops & Plant Products. Version of 1998-JAN-08. Retrieved 2008-MAR-19.
  • International Legume Database & Information Service (ILDIS) (2005): Prosopis juliflora. Version 10.01, November 2005. Retrieved 2007-DEC-20.
  • Villalobos, Soraya; Vargas, Orlando & Melo, Sandra (2007): Uso, manejo y conservacion de "yosú", Stenocereus griseus (Cactaceae) en la Alta Guajira colombiana [Usage, Managment and Conservation of yosú, Stenocereus griseus (Cactaceae), in the Upper Guajira, Colombia]. [Spanish with English abstract] Acta Biologica Colombiana 12(1): 99-112. PDF fulltext
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