Frankenia corymbosaDesf.

WFO wfo-0000691989 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 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.

Frankenia corymbosa, photographed by Oleg Kosterin
fig. a Oleg Kosterin, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-05-10 / obs. 173194395
Frankenia corymbosa, photographed by Oleg Kosterin
fig. b Oleg Kosterin, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 173194416
Frankenia corymbosa, photographed by Oleg Kosterin
fig. c Oleg Kosterin, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 172992517
Frankenia corymbosa, photographed by Oleg Kosterin
fig. d Oleg Kosterin, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 173194425
Frankenia corymbosa, photographed by Oleg Kosterin
fig. e Oleg Kosterin, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 172992525
Frankenia corymbosa, photographed by Oleg Kosterin
fig. f Oleg Kosterin, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 172992504
Frankenia corymbosa, photographed by Oleg Kosterin
fig. g Oleg Kosterin, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 173194408
Frankenia corymbosa, photographed by Oleg Kosterin
fig. h Oleg Kosterin, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 172992509

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Native range 8 botanical countries

Regions where Frankenia corymbosa is native: Algeria, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Tunisia, Western Sahara, Kriti, Spain AlgeriaLibyaMauritaniaMoroccoTunisiaWestern SaharaKritiSpain
Native distribution of Frankenia corymbosa, 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
Mauritania MTN
Morocco MOR
Tunisia TUN
Western Sahara WSA
Kriti KRI EUROPE
Spain SPA

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 8 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.

  • Frankenia chevalieri Maire
  • Frankenia corymbosa var. laxa Maire
  • Frankenia corymbosa var. valdescuamata Sennen
  • Frankenia ifniensis Caball.
  • Frankenia laevis subsp. phosphatica Maire
  • Frankenia thymoides Batt.
  • Frankenia webbii Boiss. & Reut.
  • Frankenia webbii f. thymoides (Batt.) Pau

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.

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