M. Thulin (1993) Fabaceae 1: 341-465

Trees or shrubs, armed with stipular spines 0.5-2.4(5) cm long. Leaves with 1-2(4) pairs of pinnae; pinnae with 6-29 pairs of leaflets; leaflets 6-23 mm long, 1.5-5.5 mm wide, glabrous. Inflorescences spikelike racemes 5-10(15) cm long. Flowers yellowish. Pods 8-29cm long, 0.8-1.7 cm wide, pale brown, linear, straight or slightly curved, with a sugary-pulpy mesocarp.

Prosopis juliflora was deliberately introduced to many parts of Africa as a source of timber, charcoal, forage, and flour but it is now a serious weed problem in many arid areas where it has beccome a dominant species along wadis and roadsides at low elevations in the Horn of Africa, displacing many of the native species. 

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Awale & Jama (2018). Hordhaca dhirta badhtamaha Soomaalilaand.

Geed yar baahsan oo goor-walba-cagaarane ah oo illaa 10 m gaadha. Laamaha wuxu kasoo bilaabaa gunta. Jirridiisu waa bunni khafiif ah, oo qodxo leh. Caleemo talantaalli ah, oo kakan, oo kasii kooban 22 lammaane oo iska soo horjeed u baxay, oo cagaar dhalaalaya ah. Ubax yar, huruud iyo caddaan ah, oo hoos u soo laadlaada. Midho ku jira qolof dheer oo cagaar widhwidhaya ah, oo aad mooddo in ay yara maroorto, oo si kooxo ah u soo laadlaada.

Sabo: Meelaha burciidda iyo quruuruxa leh, ee inta badan dhulka qashinka leh, joog ah illaa 1500 m. Filiqsanaanta: Asal ahaan Megsiko, imika se aad ugu faafay kulaaleyaasha qallalan iyo dhulalka saxare-xigeenka ah.

Fiiro: Waa geed u adkaysta abaaraha iyo milixda, oo si halis ah u faafaya, oo aad ula wareegay inta badan Berbera iyo dhulka xeebta ku teedsan.

Mary E. Barkworth

Habit: Bright green shrubs or trees up to 10 m tall, with spiny stems and branches.

Leaves: twice compound, with 1-4 primary divisions, each of the ultimate divisions with 6-29 pairs of leaflets.

Inflorescences: narrowly elongate, 5-15 cm long, with many small yellow flowers.

Pods: 8-29 cm long, pale brown, straight to slightly curved.  

Prosopis juliflora has often been introduced to dry, tropical and subtropical regions as a source of livestock feed and wodd but is now considered a noxious weed because of its ability to spread and its efficiency in capturing soil water, making it hard for other species t  grow where it becomes established.