Zygophyllum

Accepted species 118 Documented here 27 Family Zygophyllaceae

Accepted species 118 in this genus

Every accepted species in the genus is listed. A name links to its page when we hold at least three commercially licensed photographs of it. Where we do not, the row shows how many we actually found, which is usually none.

SpeciesAuthority Usable photographsPage
Zygophyllum laeve (Standl.) Christenh. & Byng 356 documented
Zygophyllum fabago L. 149 documented
Zygophyllum creticum (L.) Christenh. & Byng 117 documented
Zygophyllum augea Christenh. & Byng 68 documented
Zygophyllum simplex L. 68 documented
Zygophyllum fontanesii Webb & Berthel. 65 documented
Zygophyllum retrofractum Thunb. 52 documented
Zygophyllum pachyacanthum (Rydb.) Christenh. & Byng 36 documented
Zygophyllum chrysopteron Retief 33 documented
Zygophyllum molle (Delile) Christenh. & Byng 28 documented
Zygophyllum album L.f. 26 documented
Zygophyllum chilense (Hook. & Arn.) Christenh. & Byng 26 documented
Zygophyllum prismatocarpum Sond. 26 documented
Zygophyllum microcarpum Licht. ex Cham. 19 documented
Zygophyllum stapffii Schinz 16 documented
Zygophyllum qatarense Hadidi 12 documented
Zygophyllum decumbens Delile 11 documented
Zygophyllum dumosum Boiss. 10 documented
Zygophyllum rigidum Schinz 9 documented
Zygophyllum xanthoxylum (Bunge) Maxim. 9 documented
Zygophyllum gaetulum Emb. & Maire 8 documented
Zygophyllum coccineum L. 7 documented
Zygophyllum arabicum (L.) Christenh. & Byng 5 documented
Zygophyllum zilloides (Humbert) Christenh. & Byng 5 documented
Zygophyllum bruguieri (DC.) Christenh. & Byng 4 documented
Zygophyllum paulayanum (J.Wagner & Vierh.) Christenh. & Byng 4 documented
Zygophyllum harpago (Emb. & Maire) Christenh. & Byng 3 documented
Zygophyllum indicum (Burm.f.) Christenh. & Byng 27 below the evidence gate
Zygophyllum orientale (C.Presl) Christenh. & Byng 5 below the evidence gate
Zygophyllum scabrum (Forssk.) Christenh. & Byng 4 below the evidence gate
Zygophyllum clavatum Schltr. & Diels 2 below the evidence gate
Zygophyllum mayanum (Schltdl.) Christenh. & Byng 2 below the evidence gate
Zygophyllum pterocarpum Bunge 2 below the evidence gate
Zygophyllum cylindrifolium Schinz 1 below the evidence gate
Zygophyllum luntii (Baker) Christenh. & Byng 1 below the evidence gate
Zygophyllum potaninii Maxim. 1 below the evidence gate
Zygophyllum acerosum (Boiss.) Christenh. & Byng 0 below the evidence gate
Zygophyllum aegyptium Hosny 0 below the evidence gate
Zygophyllum applanatum Van Zyl 0 below the evidence gate
Zygophyllum atriplicoides Fisch. & C.A.Mey. 0 below the evidence gate
Zygophyllum balchaschense Boriss. 0 below the evidence gate
Zygophyllum betpakdalense Golosk. & Semiotr. 0 below the evidence gate
Zygophyllum borissovae Beier & Thulin 0 below the evidence gate
Zygophyllum brachypterum Kar. & Kir. 0 below the evidence gate
Zygophyllum bucharicum B.Fedtsch. 0 below the evidence gate
Zygophyllum californicum (Benth.) Christenh. & Byng 0 below the evidence gate
Zygophyllum charoides (Chiov.) Christenh. & Byng 0 below the evidence gate
Zygophyllum cornutum Coss. 0 below the evidence gate
Zygophyllum cuspidatum Boriss. 0 below the evidence gate
Zygophyllum darvasicum Boriss. 0 below the evidence gate
Zygophyllum densispinum (Beier & Thulin) Christenh. & Byng 0 below the evidence gate
Zygophyllum densum (I.M.Johnst.) Christenh. & Byng 0 below the evidence gate
Zygophyllum dregeanum Sond. 0 below the evidence gate
Zygophyllum eichwaldii C.A.Mey. 0 below the evidence gate
Zygophyllum fabagoides Popov 0 below the evidence gate
Zygophyllum furcatum C.A.Mey. 0 below the evidence gate
Zygophyllum geslinii Coss. 0 below the evidence gate
Zygophyllum giessii Merxm. & A.Schreib. 0 below the evidence gate
Zygophyllum glutinosum (Delile) Christenh. & Byng 0 below the evidence gate
Zygophyllum gobicum Maxim. 0 below the evidence gate
Zygophyllum gontscharovii Boriss. 0 below the evidence gate
Zygophyllum gypsophilum (Beier & Thulin) Christenh. & Byng 0 below the evidence gate
Zygophyllum hadramauticum (Beier & Thulin) Christenh. & Byng 0 below the evidence gate
Zygophyllum hamiense Schweinf. 0 below the evidence gate
Zygophyllum heterocladum Rech.f. & Patzak 0 below the evidence gate
Zygophyllum iliense Popov 0 below the evidence gate
Zygophyllum jaxarticum Popov 0 below the evidence gate
Zygophyllum kansuense Y.X.Liou 0 below the evidence gate
Zygophyllum karatavicum Boriss. 0 below the evidence gate
Zygophyllum kaschgaricum Boriss. 0 below the evidence gate
Zygophyllum kegense Boriss. 0 below the evidence gate
Zygophyllum kopalense Boriss. 0 below the evidence gate
Zygophyllum lahovarii (Volkens & Schweinf.) Christenh. & Byng 0 below the evidence gate
Zygophyllum latistipulatum (Beier & Thulin) Christenh. & Byng 0 below the evidence gate
Zygophyllum lehmannianum Bunge 0 below the evidence gate
Zygophyllum loczyi Kanitz 0 below the evidence gate
Zygophyllum longicapsulare Schinz 0 below the evidence gate
Zygophyllum longistipulatum Schinz 0 below the evidence gate
Zygophyllum macropodum Boriss. 0 below the evidence gate
Zygophyllum madagascariense (Baill.) Stauffer 0 below the evidence gate
Zygophyllum madecassum H.Perrier 0 below the evidence gate
Zygophyllum mahranum (Beier) Christenh. & Byng 0 below the evidence gate
Zygophyllum mandavillei Hadidi 0 below the evidence gate
Zygophyllum melongena Bunge 0 below the evidence gate
Zygophyllum migiurtinorum Chiov. 0 below the evidence gate
Zygophyllum miniatum Cham. 0 below the evidence gate
Zygophyllum minutistipulum (Engl.) Christenh. & Byng 0 below the evidence gate
Zygophyllum mongolicum (Maxim.) Christenh. & Byng 0 below the evidence gate
Zygophyllum mucronatum Maxim. 0 below the evidence gate
Zygophyllum neglectum Grubov 0 below the evidence gate
Zygophyllum obliquum Popov 0 below the evidence gate
Zygophyllum olivieri (DC.) Christenh. & Byng 0 below the evidence gate
Zygophyllum ovigerum Fisch. & C.A.Mey. ex Bunge 0 below the evidence gate
Zygophyllum oxianum Boriss. 0 below the evidence gate
Zygophyllum oxycarpum Popov 0 below the evidence gate
Zygophyllum palmeri (Vasey & Rose) Christenh. & Byng 0 below the evidence gate
Zygophyllum pamiricum Grubov 0 below the evidence gate
Zygophyllum pinnatum Cham. 0 below the evidence gate
Zygophyllum prismaticum Chiov. 0 below the evidence gate
Zygophyllum procumbens Adamson 0 below the evidence gate
Zygophyllum propinquum Decne. 0 below the evidence gate
Zygophyllum pterocaule Van Zyl 0 below the evidence gate
Zygophyllum rosowii Bunge 0 below the evidence gate
Zygophyllum scoparium (Brandegee) Christenh. & Byng 0 below the evidence gate
Zygophyllum sinkiangense Y.X.Liou 0 below the evidence gate
Zygophyllum smithii Hadidi 0 below the evidence gate
Zygophyllum somalense Hadidi 0 below the evidence gate
Zygophyllum spinosissimum (Blatt. & Hallb.) Christenh. & Byng 0 below the evidence gate
Zygophyllum steropterum Schrenk 0 below the evidence gate
Zygophyllum subinerme (Boiss.) Christenh. & Byng 0 below the evidence gate
Zygophyllum subtrijugum C.A.Mey. 0 below the evidence gate
Zygophyllum sulcatum Huysst. 0 below the evidence gate
Zygophyllum taldykurganicum Boriss. 0 below the evidence gate
Zygophyllum tenue R.Glover 0 below the evidence gate
Zygophyllum trialatum Blatt. & Hallb. 0 below the evidence gate
Zygophyllum turcomanicum Fisch. ex Boiss. 0 below the evidence gate
Zygophyllum villosum (D.M.Porter) Christenh. & Byng 0 below the evidence gate
Zygophyllum xanthoxylon (Bunge) Maxim. 0 below the evidence gate

Why some species have no pagethe gate

This site is commercial, so it can only publish photographs licensed for commercial use. Roughly three quarters of the photographs on iNaturalist are CC BY-NC, which excludes them. A species needs at least three usable photographs before we will build it a page, because a page with one picture and no traits tells you nothing you could not get from a search result, and generating hundreds of thousands of those is precisely the practice that got the previous version of this site deleted.

So the species above without a link are not errors and they are not omissions. They are real, accepted plants that we cannot yet document to the standard we hold ourselves to, and the count in the photographs column is exactly how far short we fall.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. Accepted names, authorities, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. Photograph counts, restricted to CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA. Retrieved 2026-06-27.