Version 10.38 20 July 2010 - Scientific Names: Prosopis africana (Guill. & Perr.)Taub..

Prosopis africana (Guill. & Perr.)Taub.

HIGHER TAXON: Mimoseae

GENUS: Prosopis L.

Prosopis africana (Guill. & Perr.)Taub. [Preferred name]

GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION:

Africa: Burkina (N) [11]; Cameroon (N) [1]; Central African Rep. (N) [1]; Chad (N) [64]; Gambia The (N) [1]; Ghana (N) [1]; Guinea (N) [1]; Guinea Bissau (N) [1]; Ivory Coast (N) [11]; Mali (N) [11]; Niger (N) [8]; Nigeria (N) [1]; Senegal (N) [1]; Sierra Leone (N) [1]; Sudan (N) [1]; Togo (N) [23]; Uganda (N) [1]; Zaire (N) [11]
Middle East: Saudi Arabia (N) [1939]

HABITATS:
  Africa
    Guinea-Congolia/Sudania regional transition zone; woodland [11];
    Sudanian woodland [1];

LITERATURE POINTERS:
	Description [1] ; Illustration [1, 10, 29]

DESCRIPTORS:
	Climbing: Not climbing ; Conservation Status: Not Threatened ; Habit: Tree ; Lifespan: Perennial ; Source(s): 1988 (Africa) Lock JM, 1993 Polhill RM

USES:
	Chemical products [14]; Wood [9, 14]

BIBLIOGRAPHY:

1.		Brenan, J.P.M., 1959
		Mimosoideae.In:Fl.Trop.East Africa.Hubbard & Milne-Redhead

8.		Lock, J.M., 1985
		Specimen in Herb.Kew

9.		Eggeling, W.J. & Dale, I.R., 1952
		The Indigenous Trees of the Uganda Protectorate.

10.		Aubreville, A., 1950
		La Flore Forestiere Soudano-Guineene

11.		Keay, R.W.J., 1958
		Flora of West Tropical Africa.Ed.2;Vol.1,part 2

14.		Dalziel, J.M., 1937
		The Useful Plants of West Tropical Africa

23.		Ern, H., 1984
		Leguminosae. In:Flore analytique du Togo.Brunel,J.F. et al.

29.		Andrews, F.W., 1952
		The Flowering Plants of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan;Vol.2.

64.		Lebrun, J.-P. et al, 1972
		IEMVPT Et.Bot.1,Catalogue des Plant.Vasc.du Tchad Meridional

1939.		Lock, J.M. & Simpson, K., 1991
		Legumes of West Asia: A Checklist. RBG, Kew.