Squilla maura(Maire) Mart.-Azorín, M.B.Crespo & M.Á.Alonso

WFO wfo-1000031027 Accepted WFO 2026-06 7 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–g · 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.

Squilla maura, photographed by Oleg Kosterin
fig. a Oleg Kosterin, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-05-13 / obs. 174278236
Squilla maura, photographed by Oleg Kosterin
fig. b Oleg Kosterin, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 175821867
Squilla maura, photographed by Oleg Kosterin
fig. c Oleg Kosterin, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 175821902
Squilla maura, photographed by Oleg Kosterin
fig. d Oleg Kosterin, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 175821876
Squilla maura, photographed by Oleg Kosterin
fig. e Oleg Kosterin, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 175873072
Squilla maura, photographed by Oleg Kosterin
fig. f Oleg Kosterin, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 175821882
Squilla maura, photographed by Oleg Kosterin
fig. g Oleg Kosterin, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 175821892

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Native range 1 botanical country

Regions where Squilla maura is native: Morocco Morocco
Native distribution of Squilla maura, 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
Morocco MOR AFRICA

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 10 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.

  • Charybdis maura (Maire) Speta
  • Drimia maritima subsp. maura (Maire) Förther & Podlech
  • Drimia maura (Maire) J.C.Manning & Goldblatt
  • Urginea maritima f. angustifolia (Maire) Maire
  • Urginea maritima subsp. maura (Maire) Maire
  • Urginea maritima var. angustifolia Maire
  • Urginea maritima var. maura (Maire) Maire
  • Urginea maritima var. stenophylla Maire
  • Urginea maritima var. tadlaensis Nègre
  • Urginea maura Maire

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.