Squilla undulata(Desf.) Mart.-Azorín, M.B.Crespo & M.Á.Alonso

WFO wfo-1000031031 Accepted WFO 2026-06 7 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–g · 3 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 3 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 undulata, photographed by Andrea Adelfio
fig. a Andrea Adelfio, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-01-20 / obs. 176905957
Squilla undulata, photographed by Mehdi Chetibi
fig. b Mehdi Chetibi, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 172802291
Squilla undulata, photographed by Dyhia YOUSFI
fig. c Dyhia YOUSFI, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 113616984
Squilla undulata, photographed by Mehdi Chetibi
fig. d Mehdi Chetibi, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 172801993
Squilla undulata, photographed by Mehdi Chetibi
fig. e Mehdi Chetibi, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 172801816
Squilla undulata, photographed by Mehdi Chetibi
fig. f Mehdi Chetibi, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 172802061
Squilla undulata, photographed by Mehdi Chetibi
fig. g Mehdi Chetibi, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 172801929

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Native range 7 botanical countries

Regions where Squilla undulata is native: Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Tunisia, Corse, Sardegna, Spain AlgeriaEgyptLibyaTunisiaCorseSpain Sardegna
Native distribution of Squilla undulata, 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
Tunisia TUN
Corse COR EUROPE
Sardegna SAR
Spain SPA

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 15 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 undulata (Desf.) Speta
  • Drimia purpurascens J.Jacq.
  • Drimia undata Stearn
  • Drimia undata subsp. caeculi (Pau) Mateo & M.B.Crespo
  • Epimenidion undulatum (Jacq. ex Willd.) Raf.
  • Idothea purpurascens (J.Jacq.) Kunth
  • Idothearia purpurascens (J.Jacq.) C.Presl
  • Prospero undulatum (Desf.) Salisb.
  • Scilla undulata Desf.
  • Scilla undulata Desf.
  • Strepsiphyla undulata (Desf.) Raf.
  • Urginea undulata (Desf.) Steinh.
  • Urginea undulata f. caeculi Pau
  • Urginea undulata subsp. caeculi (Pau) M.B.Crespo & Mateo
  • Urginea undulata var. caeculi (Pau) Pau

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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