Gundelia tournefortiiL.

GalgalTournefort's gundeliaTumble thistle

WFO wfo-0000035217 Accepted WFO 2026-06 6 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–f · 5 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 5 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.

Gundelia tournefortii, photographed by idoa
fig. a idoa, CC0 1.0 / 2022-04-19 / obs. 200343046
Gundelia tournefortii, photographed by Kristof Zyskowski
fig. b Kristof Zyskowski, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 35800249
Gundelia tournefortii, photographed by Kristof Zyskowski
fig. c Kristof Zyskowski, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 35801949
Gundelia tournefortii, photographed by Nasser Halaweh
fig. d Nasser Halaweh, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 18596754
Gundelia tournefortii, photographed by Udi Oron אודי אורון
fig. e Udi Oron אודי אורון, CC0 1.0 / obs. 27901
Gundelia tournefortii, photographed by Kristof Zyskowski
fig. f Kristof Zyskowski, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 35802019

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Native range 5 botanical countries

Regions where Gundelia tournefortii is native: Cyprus, Lebanon-Syria, Palestine, Sinai, Türkiye CyprusLebanon-SyriaPalestineSinaiTürkiye
Native distribution of Gundelia tournefortii, 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
Cyprus CYP ASIA-TEMPERATE
Lebanon-Syria LBS
Palestine PAL
Sinai SIN
Türkiye TUR

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 5 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.

  • Gundelia cilicica Fırat
  • Gundelia tournefortii f. tournefortii
  • Gundelia tournefortii var. glabra (Mill.) DC.
  • Gundelia tournefortii var. tenuisecta Boiss.
  • Gundelia tournefortii var. tournefortii

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. Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  4. 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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