Other conspecific taxa:

• Prosopis alba var. alba (0 accessions)
• Prosopis alba var. panta (1 accessions)

Common names:

• ibopé  (Source: Firewood Cr) - Portuguese
• ibopé-do-Pará  (Source: Firewood Cr) - Portuguese
• algarrobo blanco  (Source: Firewood Cr) - Spanish

Economic Importance:

• Human food: fruit (dried fruits are grinded into flour fide Rico, pers. comm.)
• Animal food: potential as fodder ()
• Fuels: fuelwood ()
• Materials: wood ()

Distributional Range:

Native

Southern America

• WESTERN SOUTH AMERICA: Bolivia, [Chuquisaca, La Paz, Santa Cruz, Tarija (s.)] Peru [Arequipa, Huancavelica]
• SOUTHERN SOUTH AMERICA: Argentina, [Buenos Aires, Chaco, Cordoba, Corrientes, Entre Rios, Jujuy, Salta, San Luis, Santa Fe, Santiago del Estero, Tucuman] Paraguay

References:

1. Brako, L. & J. L. Zarucchi Catalogue of the flowering plants and gymnosperms of Peru. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 45. 1993 (L Peru)
2. Burkart, A. 1976. A monograph of the genus Prosopis (Leguminosae subfam. Mimosoideae) J. Arnold Arbor. 57:520.
3. Burkart, A. E., ed. Flora ilustrada de Entre Rios. (F EntreR)
4. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) 2010. Ecocrop (on-line resource). (Ecocrop)
5. IPGRI New World Fruits Database (on-line resource). (New World Fruits)
6. Killeen, T. J. et al. Guia de arboles de Bolivia. 1993 (Trees Bolivia)
7. National Academy of Sciences Tropical legumes: resources for the future. 1979 (Trop Leg)
8. National Academy of Sciences Firewood crops. Shrub and tree species for energy production. 1980 (Firewood Cr)
9. Rico, L. & T. Pennington 2012. Review of Fabaceae Neotropical Mimosoideae data for World Economic Plants, ed. 2 (pers. comm.)
10. Zuloaga, F. O. & O. Morrone, eds. Catálogo de las plantas vasculares de la República Argentina. I. Pteridophyta, Gymnospermae y Angiospermae (Monocotyledonae), II. Dicotyledonae. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 60, 74. (L Argent)

Images:

• Seed: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image