Taxon: Prosopis farcta (Banks & Sol.) J. F. Macbr.

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:

NC*.

ªAquatic.

*Terrestrial.

°In seed.

Link to noxious weed information from

Common names:

• algaroba   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) [Portuguese (Brazil)]
  
• prosópis   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) [Portuguese (Brazil)]
  

Economic importance:

• Weed: also potential seed contaminant   (a common weed in Israel fide Atlas WWeed)
  

More:

View ethnobotanical data from Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Distributional range:

Native:

• AFRICA
  Northern Africa: Algeria [rare]; Egypt; Tunisia
• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Arabian Peninsula: Arabia
  Western Asia: Afghanistan; Cyprus; Egypt - Sinai; Iran; Iraq; Israel; Jordan; Lebanon; Syria; Turkey
  Caucasus: Azerbaijan; Georgia
  Soviet Middle Asia: Kazakhstan; Kyrgyzstan; Tajikistan; Turkmenistan; Uzbekistan
• ASIA-TROPICAL
  Indian Subcontinent: India - Punjab; Pakistan [n.w.]

References:

• Burkart, A. 1976. A monograph of the genus Prosopis (Leguminosae subfam. Mimosoideae). J. Arnold Arbor. 57:452.
• Davis, P. H., ed. 1965–1988. Flora of Turkey and the east Aegean islands. (F Turk)
• Greuter, W. et al., eds. 1984–. Med-Checklist. (L Medit)
• Holm, L. et al. 1979. A geographical atlas of world weeds. (Atlas WWeed)
• Komarov, V. L. et al., eds. 1934–1964. Flora SSSR. (F USSR) [= Lagonychium farctum (Banks & Sol.) Bobrov].
• Meikle, R. D. 1977–1985. Flora of Cyprus. (F Cyprus)
• Nasir, E. & S. I. Ali, eds. 1970–. Flora of [West] Pakistan. (F Pak)
• Rechinger, K. H., ed. 1963–. Flora iranica. (F Iran)
• Sanjappa, M. 1992. Legumes of India. (Leg India)
• Townsend, C. C. & E. Guest. 1966–. Flora of Iraq. (F Iraq)
• Yakovlev, G. P. et al. 1996. Legumes of Northern Eurasia. (Leg NEurasia)
• Zohary, M. & N. Feinbrun-Dothan. 1966–. Flora palaestina. (F Palest)

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Prosopis farcta.

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

Synonyms:

• (≡) Mimosa farcta Banks & Sol. (basionym)
  
• (=) Mimosa stephaniana M. Bieb.
  
• (=) Prosopis stephaniana (M. Bieb.) Kunth ex Spreng.
  (previously associated with 7 accessions)

Check other databases for Prosopis farcta (Banks & Sol.) J. F. Macbr.:

• ILDIS: International Legume Database & Information Service
• 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
• Embryo drawing: 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?100110 (16 March 2009)

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