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Prosopis farcta

Botanic Family

Leguminosae

Author

(Banks & Solander) J.F. Macbride

Common Names

• Acatia
• Schamuth (Arabic)
• Tofshandrnaq (Caucasus)

Geographical Habitats

• Afghanistan
• Algeria
• Cyprus
• Egypt
• Punjab - India
• Iran
• Iraq
• Kurdistan
• Pakestan
• Palestine
• Syria
• Tunisia
• Turkestan
• Turkey

Natural Habitats

Flowering Times

• Jun-Aug

Fruiting Times

• Aug-Oct

Prickly shrub, subshrub or small tree sometimes scandent with root suckers, branchlets with prickles to 5mm long, 2-7 foliolate leaves, leaflets to 6.5mm long, axillary glabrous racemes to 120mm long, creamy green, or yellowish-white flowers, puberulous calyx 1mm long, glabrous corolla to 4mm long, glabrous orange-red legume becoming black to 45mm x 25mm

Further References

• The Plant List 2
• JAA
• ILDIS