Soda oppositifolia(Desf.) Akhani

WFO wfo-1000084095 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Soda oppositifolia, photographed by Rafael Medina
fig. a Rafael Medina, CC BY 4.0 / 2020-09-02 / obs. 93499679
Soda oppositifolia, photographed by Rafael Medina
fig. b Rafael Medina, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 11684452
Soda oppositifolia, photographed by Yves Bas
fig. c Yves Bas, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 107369869
Soda oppositifolia, photographed by Daniel Heras González
fig. d Daniel Heras González, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 145322974
Soda oppositifolia, photographed by Rafael Medina
fig. e Rafael Medina, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 141618742
Soda oppositifolia, photographed by Tim Johnson
fig. f Tim Johnson, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 143576041
Soda oppositifolia, photographed by Daniel Heras González
fig. g Daniel Heras González, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 171846243
Soda oppositifolia, photographed by Daniel Heras González
fig. h Daniel Heras González, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 171578839

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Native range 13 botanical countries

Regions where Soda oppositifolia is native: Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Morocco, Tunisia, Western Sahara, Palestine, Sinai, India, Baleares, Italy, Sicilia, Spain AlgeriaEgyptLibyaMoroccoTunisiaWestern SaharaPalestineSinaiIndiaItalySiciliaSpain Baleares
Native distribution of Soda oppositifolia, 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
Algeria ALG AFRICA
Egypt EGY
Libya LBY
Morocco MOR
Tunisia TUN
Western Sahara WSA
Baleares BAL EUROPE
Italy ITA
Sicilia SIC
Spain SPA
Palestine PAL ASIA-TEMPERATE
Sinai SIN
India IND ASIA-TROPICAL

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 2 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.

  • Salsola oppositifolia Desf.
  • Seidlitzia oppositifolia (Desf.) Iljin

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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