Marcus-kochia littorea

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Marcus-kochia littorea, photographed by Duarte Frade — fig. b Duarte Frade, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 190818729

Marcus-kochia littorea, photographed by Jamie Wood — fig. c Jamie Wood, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 184315662

Marcus-kochia littorea, photographed by Vicente Lopes — fig. f Vicente Lopes, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 156344824

Marcus-kochia littorea, photographed by Christoph Moning — fig. h Christoph Moning, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 157413524

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The specimen a real sheet, in a real collection

Herbarium: Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Accession: K001573911
Filed as: Malcolmia littorea (L.) W.T.Aiton
Det. by: Salgueiro, F.J.; Ariza, M.J.
Collected: Arista, M.; Ariza, M.J.; Ortiz, P.L.; Narbona, E.; Fernández, P. 2018-05-08
Origin: ES
The sheet: View the digitised specimen (CC BY 4.0)

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Native range 7 botanical countries

Native distribution of Marcus-kochia littorea, 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.

Region	TDWG code	Continent
France	FRA	EUROPE
Italy	ITA
Portugal	POR
Spain	SPA
Algeria	ALG	AFRICA
Canary Is.	CNY
Morocco	MOR

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 16 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.

Cheiranthus littoreus L.
Cheiranthus nodosus Lam.
Hesperis alyssoides Pers.
Hesperis broussonetii Kuntze
Hesperis littorea Lam.
Malcolmia alyssoides DC.
Malcolmia littorea (L.) W.T.Aiton
Malcolmia littorea R.Br.
Malcolmia littorea var. lingulata H.Lindb.
Malcolmia littorea var. multicaulis (Pomel) Maire
Malcolmia littorea var. sinuata Rouy & Fouc.
Malcolmia littorea var. spatulata Camus
Malcolmia multicaulis Pomel
Maresia littorea (L.) F.Dvořák
Pseudomalcolmia littorea (L.) Fern.Prieto, Sanna, Arjona & Cires
Wilckia littorea Druce

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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