Prosopis velutina

Shrub or tree to 3.5(–10) m high, branching near base; branchlets covered in longish hairs. Leaves with rachis 2–4 cm long, minutely hairy; pinnae in 1 or 2 pairs; pinnules in 7–30 pairs, more or less oblong, 4–13 mm long, 2–4 mm wide, usually asymmetric, with scattered minute hairs on margins and upper surface, apex obtuse with small deflexed point; spinescent stipules 1–2 cm long, usually in pairs. Flowering racemes 5–11 cm long; calyx pubescent. Pods 7–18 cm long, 6–12 mm wide, moniliform in part, yellowish-brown, pubescent when young, shortly stalked; seeds 3–11, brown, transverse. Flowers Oct.–Jan.