Bellevalia mauritanicaPomel

WFO wfo-0000761477 Accepted WFO 2026-06 6 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–f · 2 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 2 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.

Bellevalia mauritanica, photographed by Karim Haddad
fig. a Karim Haddad, CC BY 4.0 / 2020-05-13 / obs. 73244958
Bellevalia mauritanica, photographed by Karim Haddad
fig. b Karim Haddad, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 73245084
Bellevalia mauritanica, photographed by Mehdi Chetibi
fig. c Mehdi Chetibi, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 120616166
Bellevalia mauritanica, photographed by Mehdi Chetibi
fig. d Mehdi Chetibi, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 120616198
Bellevalia mauritanica, photographed by Mehdi Chetibi
fig. e Mehdi Chetibi, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 120616234
Bellevalia mauritanica, photographed by Mehdi Chetibi
fig. f Mehdi Chetibi, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 120616296

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Native range 4 botanical countries

Regions where Bellevalia mauritanica is native: Algeria, Libya, Morocco, Tunisia AlgeriaLibyaMoroccoTunisia
Native distribution of Bellevalia mauritanica, 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
Algeria ALG AFRICA
Libya LBY
Morocco MOR
Tunisia TUN

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 10 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.

  • Bellevalia battandieri Freyn
  • Bellevalia dubia var. fallax (Pomel) Maire & Weiller
  • Bellevalia dubia var. maura Braun-Blanq. & Maire
  • Bellevalia fallax Pomel
  • Bellevalia fallax var. maura (Braun-Blanq. & Maire) Feinbrun
  • Bellevalia romana var. battandieri (Freyn) Dur. & Barr.
  • Bellevalia romana var. mauritanica (Pomel) Bonnet
  • Hyacinthus battandieri (Freyn) T.Durand & Schinz
  • Hyacinthus fallax (Pomel) T.Durand & Schinz
  • Hyacinthus mauritanicus (Pomel) T.Durand & Schinz

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.