Tecticornia indica(Willd.) K.A.Sheph. & Paul G.Wilson

WFO wfo-0000510470 Accepted WFO 2026-06 4 photographs CC0

Plate 1 figs. a–d · 1 observation

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 1 time, 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.

Tecticornia indica, photographed by Richard Fuller
fig. a Richard Fuller, CC0 1.0 / 2020-12-11 / obs. 107219230
Tecticornia indica, photographed by Richard Fuller
fig. b Richard Fuller, CC0 1.0 / obs. 107219239
Tecticornia indica, photographed by Richard Fuller
fig. c Richard Fuller, CC0 1.0 / obs. 107219248
Tecticornia indica, photographed by Richard Fuller
fig. d Richard Fuller, CC0 1.0 / obs. 107219257

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Native range 24 botanical countries

Regions where Tecticornia indica is native: Angola, Cape Provinces, Kenya, KwaZulu-Natal, Madagascar, Mauritania, Mozambique, Mozambique Channel Is., Senegal, Somalia, Tanzania, Bangladesh, India, Jawa, Lesser Sunda Is., Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Vietnam, New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia AngolaCape ProvincesKenyaKwaZulu-NatalMadagascarMauritaniaMozambiqueSenegalSomaliaTanzaniaBangladeshIndiaJawaLesser Sunda Is.PakistanSri LankaVietnamNew South WalesNorthern TerritoryQueenslandSouth AustraliaVictoriaWestern Australia Mozambique Channel Is.
Native distribution of Tecticornia indica, 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
Angola ANG AFRICA
Cape Provinces CPP
Kenya KEN
KwaZulu-Natal NAT
Madagascar MDG
Mauritania MTN
Mozambique MOZ
Mozambique Channel Is. MCI
Senegal SEN
Somalia SOM
Tanzania TAN
Bangladesh BAN ASIA-TROPICAL
India IND
Jawa JAW
Lesser Sunda Is. LSI
Pakistan PAK
Sri Lanka SRL
Vietnam VIE
New South Wales NSW AUSTRALASIA
Northern Territory NTA
Queensland QLD
South Australia SOA
Victoria VIC
Western Australia WAU

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 18 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.

  • Arthrocnemum africanum Moss
  • Arthrocnemum bidens Nees
  • Arthrocnemum dunense Moss
  • Arthrocnemum hottentoticum Moss
  • Arthrocnemum indicum (Willd.) Moq.
  • Arthrocnemum namaquense Moss
  • Arthrocnemum natalense Moss
  • Arthrocnemum perenne Moss
  • Halosarcia indica (Willd.) Paul G.Wilson
  • Halosarcia indica subsp. bidens (Nees) Paul G.Wilson
  • Salicornia australasica (Moq.) H.Eichler
  • Salicornia bidens Benth.
  • Salicornia brachiata Miq.
  • Salicornia fruticosa Decne.
  • Salicornia indica Willd.
  • Salicornia natalensis Bunge ex Ung.-Sternb.
  • Sarcathria ambigua (Michx.) Raf.
  • Sarcathria indica (Willd.) Raf.

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.