Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Neltuma juliflora
Algarrobo, cují, carbón, Mesquite, alfarroba
A beautiful shrub or small tree, to about 10 m tall, with a smooth bark and short spines. The leaves are composed of small deep green leaflets arranged in parallel, the veins are evident and there are 6-20 pairs of leaflets. The small flowers are arranged on bottle-brush spikes. The bean pods hang in groups (Wiggins and Porter, 1971).
Found in arid and semiarid areas (Wiggins and Porter, 1971).
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Magnoliophyta
Class
Magnoliopsida (= Dicotyledoneae)
Order
Fabales
Family
Fabaceae
Genus
Neltuma
Species
juliflora
Taxon category: Accepted
Syn.: Prosopis juliflora (Sw.) DC. (Hughes et al., 2022); Syn.: Acacia cumanensis Willd. fide Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew & Missouri Botanical Garden (2013).
Origin: Native
Map of specimen collection localities or observation records for this species in our collections database.
Distribution: The native range of this species is Mexico to Venezuela, Northern South America, Caribbean (POWO, 2023).
- Hughes, C. Ringelberg, J., Lewis, G. & Catalano, S. (2022) Disintegration of the genus Prosopis L. (Leguminosae, Caesalpinioideae, mimosoid clade) PhytoKeys, 205: 147–189.
- Ringelberg, J. Koenen, E., Iganci, J., de Queiroz, L., Murphy, D., Gaudeul, M., Bruneau, A., Luckow, M., Lewis, G. & Hughes, C. (2022) Phylogenomic analysis of 997 nuclear genes reveals the need for extensive generic re-delimitation in Caesalpinioideae (Leguminosae). PhytoKeys, 205: 3–58.
- Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (2022) Plants of the world online POWO (2022): Plants of the world online. Published on the Internet; Https://powo.science.kew.org/
- Wiggins, I.L. Porter, D.M. (1971) Flora of the Galapagos Islands Standford University Press, Stanford.
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"Galapagos Species Database, Neltuma juliflora", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=24701. Accessed 4 April 2026.