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Neltuma pallida (Humb. & Bonpl. ex Willd.) C.E.Hughes & G.P.Lewis

Fabaceae · Peru

English names not checked: Wikidata's common names were not read for this page.

No habitat climate
Photographs not checked iNaturalist and GBIF media were skipped (not asked) when this page was built. Not asked, or not answered, is not "none": nothing here claims there is none. Why the site says it this way.
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Summary

Neltuma pallida (formerly Prosopis pallida) is a species of mesquite tree. It has the common names kiawe (in Hawaii), huarango (in its native South America) and American carob, as well as "bayahonda" (a generic term for Prosopis), "algarrobo pálido" (in some parts of Ecuador and Peru), and "algarrobo blanco" (usually used for Prosopis alba). It is a thorny legume, native to Colombia, Ecuador and Peru, particularly drier areas near the coast. While threatened in its native habitat, it is considered an invasive species in many other places.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Neltuma pallida", CC BY-SA 4.0.

Cultivation

Nothing derived: no habitat climate for this species.

Climate across the habitat

No habitat climate can be derived: 1 in-range record, none placed to within 10 km. 1 of the 1 in-range records is placed to worse than 10 km, or to no stated accuracy and fewer than three decimals or by something other than a person's observation, and cannot place a climate cell, though it counts for the map and its marker.

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP.
Openly licensed records inside the range, framed on where they fall.

This species has no GBIF key of its own. Its records are GBIF's under the key of the name Kew's World Checklist holds as this plant: 5358525 (Prosopis pallida (Humb. & Bonpl. ex Willd.) Kunth, 2000 records). No name was matched to GBIF; the keys are read from Kew's synonymy. How.

NativePeru · regions are the level-3 units of the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, as Kew's World Checklist records ranges, some under historical names such as Yugoslavia or Czechoslovakia (how).
Kew's description“tree” · “seasonally dry tropical” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedThe map marker rests on the one georeferenced record inside the native range, openly licensed and shown on the map. 1730 records outside the WCVP native range not used. Under a dozen records behind the map. No climate across the range is derived for this species. 1 in-range record is placed to worse than 10 km, or with no stated accuracy (admitted only as a person's observation to three decimals), and stays on the map but off the climate.
Other GBIF keysRecords also from GBIF's key 5358525 (Prosopis pallida (Humb. & Bonpl. ex Willd.) Kunth): Kew's file holds it as Prosopis pallida (Humb. & Bonpl. ex Willd.) Kunth (synonym under Neltuma pallida (Humb. & Bonpl. ex Willd.) C.E.Hughes & G.P.Lewis); 2,000 records, from GBIF's download.

Photographs

Not checked. iNaturalist and GBIF media were skipped (not asked) when this page was built. Not a statement that none exist.

Other Neltuma 12 in the reference

Neltuma affinis Fabaceae Neltuma alba Fabaceae Neltuma alpataco Fabaceae Neltuma andicola Fabaceae Neltuma articulata Fabaceae Neltuma caldenia Fabaceae Neltuma chilensis Fabaceae Neltuma flexuosa Neltuma flexuosa Fabaceae Photo: CC BY, Bender Benjamin Bender Neltuma kuntzei Fabaceae Neltuma laevigata Fabaceae Neltuma nigra Fabaceae Neltuma odorata Fabaceae

Names & registers

Also known as Acacia pallida; Prosopis pallida; Mitostax pallida. (WCVP, RBG Kew)

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The record

Family
Fabaceae
Described by
(Humb. & Bonpl. ex Willd.) C.E.Hughes & G.P.Lewis
Native to
Peru
Wild records
1 in range · 1 open

Every figure here is derived from public data by a stated rule and names its source; nothing about this species is written for its page by a person or by AI, apart from the marked, credited quotations. How →

Where this page came from built 2026-10-22
Kew's names (WCVP) kew.names answeredas of 2026-06-04Kew's entry Neltuma pallida (Humb. & Bonpl. ex Willd.) C.E.Hughes & G.P.Lewis (plant_name_id 3293865), read from Kew's names file
GBIF species record gbif.species not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not asked
GBIF synonyms gbif.synonyms not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not asked
GBIF common names gbif.vernacular not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not asked
WCVP native range wcvp.distribution answeredas of 2026-06-04
GBIF occurrence records gbif.occurrences answeredas of 2026-10-21this species has no GBIF key of its own; its records are read under GBIF's keys for the names Kew's file holds as this plant, never by a name matched; GBIF occurrence download https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.hbdw64, of 2026-10-21; 2000 records of GBIF's key 5358525, Prosopis pallida (Humb. & Bonpl. ex Willd.) Kunth (Kew's file holds it as Prosopis pallida (Humb. & Bonpl. ex Willd.) Kunth (synonym under Neltuma pallida (Humb. & Bonpl. ex Willd.) C.E.Hughes & G.P.Lewis)): the GBIF download; 1 record within 1 km of a botanic garden, herbarium or zoo left out (1 at a botanic garden or arboretum; Wikidata's list)
Habitat climate climate nothing to reportasked 2026-10-221 in-range record, none placed to within 10 km
Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-22found by Kew's IPNI identifier 77303755-1, POWO 77303755-1
Wikipedia wikipedia answeredasked 2026-10-22
iNaturalist photographs, wild inat.photos.wild not asked
iNaturalist photographs, cultivated inat.photos.cultivated not asked
GBIF media gbif.media not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not asked
Wikimedia Commons commons nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22
OpenAlex papers openalex not askednot yet asked for this reference; a later fill takes the papers from OpenAlex's snapshot

Every source is recorded as having answered, reported nothing, refused, failed, not been asked, or answered twice where one answer is taken (“not taken: two items answered”), and, for a source asked when this page was built, when: the figures are as the source held them that day; a source read from a file (Kew's World Checklist, a GBIF download) says "as of" the file's day instead; a row carried from an earlier build of the page names that build instead. Only “nothing to report” is ever shown as an absence. Records came from 12 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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