Cornulaca monacanthaDelile

WFO wfo-0000621591 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 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.

Cornulaca monacantha, photographed by Arabella Willing
fig. a Arabella Willing, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-02-04 / obs. 111947140
Cornulaca monacantha, photographed by Arabella Willing
fig. b Arabella Willing, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 111947155
Cornulaca monacantha, photographed by Arabella Willing
fig. c Arabella Willing, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 111947143
Cornulaca monacantha, photographed by Arabella Willing
fig. d Arabella Willing, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 111947146
Cornulaca monacantha, photographed by Arabella Willing
fig. e Arabella Willing, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 111947149
Cornulaca monacantha, photographed by Arabella Willing
fig. f Arabella Willing, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 111947152
Cornulaca monacantha, photographed by Arabella Willing
fig. g Arabella Willing, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 111947162
Cornulaca monacantha, photographed by Arabella Willing
fig. h Arabella Willing, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 111947167

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Native range 22 botanical countries

Regions where Cornulaca monacantha is native: Algeria, Chad, Egypt, Libya, Mali, Mauritania, Morocco, Niger, Sudan-South Sudan, Tunisia, Western Sahara, Afghanistan, Gulf States, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Oman, Palestine, Saudi Arabia, Sinai, Yemen, Pakistan AlgeriaChadEgyptLibyaMaliMauritaniaMoroccoNigerSudan-South SudanTunisiaWestern SaharaAfghanistanGulf StatesIranIraqKuwaitOmanPalestineSaudi ArabiaSinaiYemenPakistan
Native distribution of Cornulaca monacantha, 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
Chad CHA
Egypt EGY
Libya LBY
Mali MLI
Mauritania MTN
Morocco MOR
Niger NGR
Sudan-South Sudan SUD
Tunisia TUN
Western Sahara WSA
Afghanistan AFG ASIA-TEMPERATE
Gulf States GST
Iran IRN
Iraq IRQ
Kuwait KUW
Oman OMA
Palestine PAL
Saudi Arabia SAU
Sinai SIN
Yemen YEM
Pakistan PAK ASIA-TROPICAL

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 2 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.

  • Cornulaca arabica Botsch.
  • Cornulaca monacantha var. diacantha Maire

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.