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.
Every figure is a research-grade observation under CC0, CC BY or CC BY-SA, rehosted with the photographer’s name, the licence and the observation it came from. Photographs under a NonCommercial licence are excluded from this site and are never stored, which costs us a great many pictures and is not negotiable.
The specimen a real sheet, in a real collection
- Herbarium
- The New York Botanical Garden
- Accession
- 4279688
- Filed as
- Ephedra ciliata Fisch. & C.A.Mey.
- Det. by
- not recorded on this sheet
- Collected
- R. R. Stewart 1934-04-28
- Origin
- PK
- The sheet
- View the digitised specimen (CC BY 4.0)
A real pressed plant, in a real collection, under the accession number above. Not an illustration of one. The holding institution does not serve this sheet’s image to third parties, so there is no photograph here. The record is real and the link goes to it. Where we hold no openly licensed sheet for a species this section is simply absent, and where a sheet never recorded who determined it, that field stays empty rather than being filled in. Roughly half of all herbarium sheets never recorded a determiner, which is ordinary.
Native range 28 botanical countries
| Region | TDWG code | Continent |
|---|---|---|
| Afghanistan | AFG | ASIA-TEMPERATE |
| Gulf States | GST | |
| Iran | IRN | |
| Iraq | IRQ | |
| Kuwait | KUW | |
| Lebanon-Syria | LBS | |
| Oman | OMA | |
| Palestine | PAL | |
| Saudi Arabia | SAU | |
| Sinai | SIN | |
| Tadzhikistan | TZK | |
| Turkmenistan | TKM | |
| Uzbekistan | UZB | |
| Yemen | YEM | |
| Algeria | ALG | AFRICA |
| Chad | CHA | |
| Djibouti | DJI | |
| Egypt | EGY | |
| Ethiopia | ETH | |
| Libya | LBY | |
| Mauritania | MTN | |
| Morocco | MOR | |
| Socotra | SOC | |
| Somalia | SOM | |
| Sudan-South Sudan | SUD | |
| Western Sahara | WSA | |
| India | IND | ASIA-TROPICAL |
| Pakistan | PAK |
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 13 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.
- Ephedra aitchisonii (Stapf) V.A.Nikitin
- Ephedra alte C.A.Mey.
- Ephedra alte Brandis
- Ephedra asparagoides Griff.
- Ephedra ciliata var. polylepis (Boiss. & Hausskn.) Riedl
- Ephedra foliata Boiss. ex C.A.Mey.
- Ephedra foliata var. aitchisonii Stapf
- Ephedra foliata var. ciliata (Fisch. & C.A.Mey.) Stapf
- Ephedra foliata var. polylepis (Boiss. & Hausskn.) Stapf
- Ephedra kokanica Regel
- Ephedra peduncularis Boiss.
- Ephedra polylepis Boiss. & Hausskn.
- Ephedra rollandii Maire
Sourcesevery claim on this page
- World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
- iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
- 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.
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