Fabaceae

Neltuma Raf.

First published in Sylva Tellur.: 119 (1838)
This genus is accepted
The native range of this genus is Central U.S.A. to Tropical & Subtropical America.

Distribution

Native to:

Argentina Northeast, Argentina Northwest, Argentina South, Arizona, Arkansas, Aruba, Bahamas, Bolivia, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil West-Central, California, Chile Central, Chile North, Colombia, Colorado, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Galápagos, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Kansas, Leeward Is., Louisiana, Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Netherlands Antilles, New Mexico, Nicaragua, Panamá, Paraguay, Peru, Texas, Uruguay, Venezuela, Venezuelan Antilles, Windward Is.

Introduced into:

Andaman Is., Angola, Ascension, Assam, Bangladesh, Benin, Botswana, Burkina, Canary Is., Cape Provinces, Cape Verde, Chad, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Free State, Gilbert Is., Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Hawaii, India, Iran, Iraq, Jawa, Kenya, Libya, Madagascar, Mali, Marianas, Mauritania, Mauritius, Myanmar, Namibia, Nepal, New Guinea, New South Wales, Nicobar Is., Niger, Nigeria, Northern Provinces, Northern Territory, Oman, Pakistan, Philippines, Puerto Rico, Queensland, Réunion, Senegal, Socotra, Somalia, South Australia, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Tanzania, Trinidad-Tobago, Uganda, Victoria, West Himalaya, Western Australia, Yemen, Zimbabwe

Synonyms

Heterotypic Synonyms

Accepted Species

Publications

An alternative taxonomy had been proposed by the following authorities:

  • Govaerts, R., Nic Lughadha, E., Black, N., Turner, R. & Paton, A. (2021). The World Checklist of Vascular Plants, a continuously updated resource for exploring global plant diversity. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-021-00997-6. Scientific Data 8: 215. [Cited as Prosopis.]

Other Data

Other Kew resources that provide information on this taxon:

Sources

  • Kew Backbone Distributions

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2023. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

  • Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2023. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0