Bassia laniflora(S.G.Gmel.) A.J.Scott

WFO wfo-0000561160 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 7 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 7 times, 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.

Bassia laniflora, photographed by Aleksei Baushev
fig. a Aleksei Baushev, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-08-22 / obs. 152740283
Bassia laniflora, photographed by Aleksei Baushev
fig. b Aleksei Baushev, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 152243233
Bassia laniflora, photographed by Oleksii Vasyliuk
fig. c Oleksii Vasyliuk, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 89436151
Bassia laniflora, photographed by Aleksei Baushev
fig. d Aleksei Baushev, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 152740308
Bassia laniflora, photographed by Dmitriy Bochkov
fig. e Dmitriy Bochkov, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 158333780
Bassia laniflora, photographed by Dmitriy Bochkov
fig. f Dmitriy Bochkov, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 175425891
Bassia laniflora, photographed by Dmitriy Bochkov
fig. g Dmitriy Bochkov, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 159792019
Bassia laniflora, photographed by Dmitriy Bochkov
fig. h Dmitriy Bochkov, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 164941438

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Native range 26 botanical countries

Regions where Bassia laniflora is native: Altay, Inner Mongolia, Irkutsk, Kazakhstan, North Caucasus, Transcaucasus, Tuva, West Siberia, Xinjiang, Austria, Bulgaria, Central European Russia, Czechia-Slovakia, East European Russia, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Krym, NW. Balkan Pen., Poland, Romania, South European Russia, Spain, Ukraine AltayInner MongoliaIrkutskKazakhstanNorth CaucasusTranscaucasusTuvaWest SiberiaXinjiangAustriaBulgariaCentral European RussiaCzechia-SlovakiaEast European RussiaFranceGermanyGreeceHungaryItalyKrymNW. Balkan Pen.PolandRomaniaSouth European RussiaSpainUkraine
Native distribution of Bassia laniflora, 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
Austria AUT EUROPE
Bulgaria BUL
Central European Russia RUC
Czechia-Slovakia CZE
East European Russia RUE
France FRA
Germany GER
Greece GRC
Hungary HUN
Italy ITA
Krym KRY
NW. Balkan Pen. YUG
Poland POL
Romania ROM
South European Russia RUS
Spain SPA
Ukraine UKR
Altay ALT ASIA-TEMPERATE
Inner Mongolia CHI
Irkutsk IRK
Kazakhstan KAZ
North Caucasus NCS
Transcaucasus TCS
Tuva TVA
West Siberia WSB
Xinjiang CHX

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 15 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.

  • Chenopodium arenarium (Maerkl.) G.Gaertn., B.Mey. & Schreb.
  • Kochia arenaria (Maerkl.) Roth
  • Kochia dasyantha Schrad.
  • Kochia laniflora (S.G.Gmel.) Borbás
  • Polycnemum acutum (L.) Schrank
  • Polycnemum camphorosma Schrank
  • Polycnemum camphorosmoides Moq.
  • Salsola arenaria Maerkl.
  • Salsola arenaria (P.Gaertn., B.Mey. & Schreb.) Waldst. & Kit.
  • Salsola dasyantha Pall.
  • Salsola dasyphylla Pall.
  • Salsola laniflora S.G.Gmel.
  • Salsola tenuifolia M.Bieb.
  • Willemetia arenaria (P.Gaertn., B.Mey. & Schreb.) Maerkl.
  • Willemetia lanata Maerkl.

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.