Hippocrepis multisiliquosaL.

WFO wfo-0000205621 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 7 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 7 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.

Hippocrepis multisiliquosa, photographed by Eleftherios Katsillis
fig. a Eleftherios Katsillis, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-04-19 / obs. 189448067
Hippocrepis multisiliquosa, photographed by Eleftherios Katsillis
fig. b Eleftherios Katsillis, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 121027280
Hippocrepis multisiliquosa, photographed by Eleftherios Katsillis
fig. c Eleftherios Katsillis, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 119385617
Hippocrepis multisiliquosa, photographed by Eleftherios Katsillis
fig. d Eleftherios Katsillis, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 116809691
Hippocrepis multisiliquosa, photographed by Eleftherios Katsillis
fig. e Eleftherios Katsillis, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 115649574
Hippocrepis multisiliquosa, photographed by Duarte Frade
fig. f Duarte Frade, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 55469309
Hippocrepis multisiliquosa, photographed by Eleftherios Katsillis
fig. g Eleftherios Katsillis, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 189447785
Hippocrepis multisiliquosa, photographed by Astra
fig. h Astra, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 72937351

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Native range 22 botanical countries

Regions where Hippocrepis multisiliquosa is native: Algeria, Canary Is., Libya, Madeira, Mauritania, Morocco, Tunisia, Cyprus, East Aegean Is., Lebanon-Syria, Palestine, Saudi Arabia, Sinai, Türkiye, Baleares, Corse, Greece, Krym, Portugal, Sardegna, Sicilia, Spain AlgeriaLibyaMauritaniaMoroccoTunisiaCyprusEast Aegean Is.Lebanon-SyriaPalestineSaudi ArabiaSinaiTürkiyeCorseGreeceKrymPortugalSiciliaSpain Canary Is.MadeiraBalearesSardegna
Native distribution of Hippocrepis multisiliquosa, 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. Regions too small to draw at this scale are marked with a dot.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Baleares BAL EUROPE
Corse COR
Greece GRC
Krym KRY
Portugal POR
Sardegna SAR
Sicilia SIC
Spain SPA
Algeria ALG AFRICA
Canary Is. CNY
Libya LBY
Madeira MDR
Mauritania MTN
Morocco MOR
Tunisia TUN
Cyprus CYP ASIA-TEMPERATE
East Aegean Is. EAI
Lebanon-Syria LBS
Palestine PAL
Saudi Arabia SAU
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 14 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.

  • Ferrum-equinum multiflorum Moench
  • Ferrum-equinum multisiliquosum (L.) Medik.
  • Hippocrepis biflora Sennen & Mauricio
  • Hippocrepis confusa Pau
  • Hippocrepis confusa f. siciliana Uhrova
  • Hippocrepis confusa subvar. leiocarpa Maire
  • Hippocrepis confusa subvar. trachycarpa Maire
  • Hippocrepis confusa var. austro-oranensis Maire
  • Hippocrepis confusa var. banica Maire
  • Hippocrepis multisiliquosa f. subrecta Maire
  • Hippocrepis multisiliquosa subsp. confusa (Pau) Maire
  • Hippocrepis multisiliquosa var. confusa (Pau) Pau
  • Hippocrepis multisiliquosa var. siciliana (Uhrova) E.Domínguez
  • Hippocrepis multisiliquosa var. subcyclocarpa Maire & Sennen

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.