Aristida funiculataTrin. & Rupr.

WFO wfo-0000848826 Accepted WFO 2026-06 3 photographs CC0

Plate 1 figs. a–c · 1 observation

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 1 time, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.

Aristida funiculata, photographed by bat (Maria Vorontsova)
fig. a bat (Maria Vorontsova), CC0 1.0 / 2012-12-14 / obs. 109483853
Aristida funiculata, photographed by bat (Maria Vorontsova)
fig. b bat (Maria Vorontsova), CC0 1.0 / obs. 109483951
Aristida funiculata, photographed by bat (Maria Vorontsova)
fig. c bat (Maria Vorontsova), CC0 1.0 / obs. 109483949

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Native range 26 botanical countries

Regions where Aristida funiculata is native: Burkina, Cape Verde, Chad, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Libya, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Socotra, Somalia, Sudan-South Sudan, Afghanistan, Gulf States, Iran, Iraq, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, India, Pakistan, West Himalaya BurkinaChadEgyptEritreaEthiopiaKenyaLibyaMaliMauritaniaNigerNigeriaSenegalSomaliaSudan-South SudanAfghanistanGulf StatesIranIraqOmanSaudi ArabiaYemenIndiaPakistanWest Himalaya Cape Verde
Native distribution of Aristida funiculata, 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. Regions too small to draw at this scale are marked with a dot.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Burkina BKN AFRICA
Cape Verde CVI
Chad CHA
Egypt EGY
Eritrea ERI
Ethiopia ETH
Kenya KEN
Libya LBY
Mali MLI
Mauritania MTN
Niger NGR
Nigeria NGA
Senegal SEN
Socotra SOC
Somalia SOM
Sudan-South Sudan SUD
Afghanistan AFG ASIA-TEMPERATE
Gulf States GST
Iran IRN
Iraq IRQ
Oman OMA
Saudi Arabia SAU
Yemen YEM
India IND ASIA-TROPICAL
Pakistan PAK
West Himalaya WHM

Not drawn on the map: Socotra. We hold no public-domain boundary for this region, so it is listed rather than guessed at.

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.

Also published as 20 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.

  • Aristida foenicularis Edgew.
  • Aristida funicularis Trin. ex Steud.
  • Aristida funiculata var. brevis Maire
  • Aristida funiculata var. funiculata
  • Aristida funiculata var. mallica (Edgew.) Henrard
  • Aristida funiculata var. paradoxa (J.A.Schmidt) Henrard
  • Aristida funiculata var. royleana (Trin. & Rupr.) Hook.f.
  • Aristida herbacea Steud. ex T.Durand & Schinz
  • Aristida kotschyi Hochst. ex Steud.
  • Aristida macranthera Hochst. ex Boiss.
  • Aristida macrathera A.Rich.
  • Aristida mallica Edgew.
  • Aristida paradoxa J.A.Schmidt
  • Aristida royleana Trin. & Rupr.
  • Aristida stipacea Ehrenb. & Hemprich ex Trin. & Rupr.
  • Aristida stipacea Ehrenb. & Hemprich ex Boiss.
  • Arthratherum kotschyi Hochst. ex Trin.
  • Arthratherum royleanum (Trin. & Rupr.) Edgew. ex Aitch.
  • Chaetaria murina Nees ex Trin. & Rupr.
  • Chaetaria royleana Nees ex Steud.

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. 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.