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Prosopis juliflora

Scientific name: Prosopis juliflora (Sw.) DC.
Botanical family: FABACEAE

Vernacular names

(In territories with significant traditional TRAMIL use)

Haiti:

  • bayawond blan

Other vernacular names

Botanical description

Shrub or small tree, up to 12 m high with spreading branches armed with straight spines 0.6-2.5 cm.  Leaves, petiolate 1-4 cm, bipinnate with glands between pairs of pinnae, pinnae 1 pair rarely 2, leaflets 12-20 pairs linear-oblong, 7-16 x 1.5-3.2 mm, apex obtuse or short abrupt point; inflorescence axillary in spikelike racemes, 5-10 cm long; flowers densely packed with pale yellow corolla 2.5 mm long; pod compressed, 7-20 cm x 1-1.6 cm, slightly curved, pale yellow; seeds brown 6 mm embedded in white sweet pulp.

Voucher(s)

Pimentel,1174,JBSD


Pharmacopoeia

Ed.2

References

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