Prosopis farcta(Banks & Sol.) J.F.Macbr.

Syrian mesquite

WFO wfo-0000212585 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Prosopis farcta, photographed by Fethullah ÖZTÜRK
fig. a Fethullah ÖZTÜRK, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-07-25 / obs. 146449195
Prosopis farcta, photographed by Even Dankowicz
fig. b Even Dankowicz, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 55148240
Prosopis farcta, photographed by Even Dankowicz
fig. c Even Dankowicz, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 53702286
Prosopis farcta, photographed by Mohammad Amin Ghaffari
fig. d Mohammad Amin Ghaffari, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 116333242
Prosopis farcta, photographed by Rafael Medina
fig. e Rafael Medina, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 2041909
Prosopis farcta, photographed by Dan Horowitz
fig. f Dan Horowitz, CC0 1.0 / obs. 144308574
Prosopis farcta, photographed by Daniel Cahen
fig. g Daniel Cahen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 28630689
Prosopis farcta, photographed by Astra
fig. h Astra, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 76995726

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The specimen a real sheet, in a real collection

Herbarium
Smithsonian, US National Herbarium
Accession
US 2336615
Filed as
Prosopis farcta (Banks & Sol.) J.F.Macbr.
Det. by
Strong, M. T., (US), Smithsonian Institution - National Museum of Natural History (UNITED STATES)
Collected
K. H. Beach 1952-08-02
Origin
AF
The sheet
View the digitised specimen (CC0 1.0)

A real pressed plant, in a real collection, under the accession number above. Not an illustration of one. The holding institution does not serve this sheet’s image to third parties, so there is no photograph here. The record is real and the link goes to it. Where we hold no openly licensed sheet for a species this section is simply absent, and where a sheet never recorded who determined it, that field stays empty rather than being filled in. Roughly half of all herbarium sheets never recorded a determiner, which is ordinary.

Native range 21 botanical countries

Regions where Prosopis farcta is native: Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Tunisia, Afghanistan, Cyprus, Iran, Iraq, Kazakhstan, Kirgizstan, Lebanon-Syria, Palestine, Saudi Arabia, Sinai, Tadzhikistan, Transcaucasus, Türkiye, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, India, Pakistan AlgeriaEgyptLibyaTunisiaAfghanistanCyprusIranIraqKazakhstanKirgizstanLebanon-SyriaPalestineSaudi ArabiaSinaiTadzhikistanTranscaucasusTürkiyeTurkmenistanUzbekistanIndiaPakistan
Native distribution of Prosopis farcta, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Afghanistan AFG ASIA-TEMPERATE
Cyprus CYP
Iran IRN
Iraq IRQ
Kazakhstan KAZ
Kirgizstan KGZ
Lebanon-Syria LBS
Palestine PAL
Saudi Arabia SAU
Sinai SIN
Tadzhikistan TZK
Transcaucasus TCS
Türkiye TUR
Turkmenistan TKM
Uzbekistan UZB
Algeria ALG AFRICA
Egypt EGY
Libya LBY
Tunisia TUN
India IND ASIA-TROPICAL
Pakistan PAK

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Where it actually grows measured, from 287 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low -2.7 °C 6.9 °C 11.0 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 29.8 °C 33.7 °C 41.0 °C
Annual rainfall 153 mm 482 mm 742 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 1 mm 3 mm 14 mm

It is found where winters bring light frost. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 287 research-grade observations of Prosopis farcta that carry a coordinate, and this is the range those places actually span. The 5th and 95th percentiles are used rather than the minimum and maximum, because a single cultivated specimen in a heated conservatory should not widen a tropical plant's range to the Arctic.

This is not a hardiness zone. A USDA zone is the average annual extreme minimum temperature. The figure above is the mean daily minimum of the coldest month, which is a different quantity and is typically far warmer. Reading one as the other would place a plant several zones too warm, so we do not publish a hardiness zone, because we do not have one.

Also published as 13 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Acacia heterocarpa Delile
  • Acacia persica Sterler ex Steud.
  • Acacia stephaniana (M.Bieb.) Willd.
  • Lagonychium farctum (Banks & Sol.) Bobrov
  • Lagonychium stephanianum (M.Bieb.) M.Bieb.
  • Mimosa agrestis Sieber ex Spreng.
  • Mimosa arvensis Sieber ex Steud.
  • Mimosa farcta Banks & Sol.
  • Mimosa micrantha Vahl ex Walp.
  • Mimosa stephaniana M.Bieb.
  • Pleuromenes heterocarpa Raf.
  • Prosopis farcta var. glabra Burkart
  • Prosopis stephaniana (M.Bieb.) Kunth ex Spreng.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  4. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.