Tamarix africanaPoir.

African tamarisk

WFO wfo-0000458782 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Tamarix africana, photographed by Alessia Guggisberg
fig. a Alessia Guggisberg, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-04-20 / obs. 189494076
Tamarix africana, photographed by Duarte Frade
fig. b Duarte Frade, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 181403236
Tamarix africana, photographed by Duarte Frade
fig. c Duarte Frade, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 161291043
Tamarix africana, photographed by Aissa Djamel Filali
fig. d Aissa Djamel Filali, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 128204405
Tamarix africana, photographed by Duarte Frade
fig. e Duarte Frade, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 57721661
Tamarix africana, photographed by Duarte Frade
fig. f Duarte Frade, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 57612198
Tamarix africana, photographed by Davide Puddu
fig. g Davide Puddu, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 14852236
Tamarix africana, photographed by Duarte Frade
fig. h Duarte Frade, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 113454104

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Native range 13 botanical countries

Regions where Tamarix africana is native: Algeria, Canary Is., Libya, Morocco, Tunisia, Baleares, Corse, France, Italy, Portugal, Sardegna, Sicilia, Spain AlgeriaLibyaMoroccoTunisiaCorseFranceItalyPortugalSiciliaSpain Canary Is.BalearesSardegna
Native distribution of Tamarix africana, 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
France FRA
Italy ITA
Portugal POR
Sardegna SAR
Sicilia SIC
Spain SPA
Algeria ALG AFRICA
Canary Is. CNY
Libya LBY
Morocco MOR
Tunisia TUN

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 17 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.

  • Tamarix africana f. leptostachya Maire
  • Tamarix africana var. laxiflora J.Gay
  • Tamarix africana var. saharae J.Gay
  • Tamarix calarantha Pau
  • Tamarix castellana Pau & Villar
  • Tamarix castellana f. rosea Pau & Villar
  • Tamarix celtiberica Sennen & Elias
  • Tamarix font-queri Maire & Trab.
  • Tamarix hieronymi Sennen
  • Tamarix hispanica Boiss.
  • Tamarix longebracteolata Sennen
  • Tamarix malacitana Pau
  • Tamarix segobricensis Pau
  • Tamarix speciosa Ball
  • Tamarix theodori Sennen
  • Tamarix uncinatifolia Sennen
  • Tamarix viciosoi Pau & Villar

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. Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  4. 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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