Trigonella emodiBenth.

WFO wfo-0000185560 Accepted WFO 2026-06 3 photographs CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–c · 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.

Trigonella emodi, photographed by Dinesh Valke
fig. a Dinesh Valke, CC BY-SA 4.0 / 2012-07-31 / obs. 174939431
Trigonella emodi, photographed by Dinesh Valke
fig. b Dinesh Valke, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 174939435
Trigonella emodi, photographed by Dinesh Valke
fig. c Dinesh Valke, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 174939436

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Native range 6 botanical countries

Regions where Trigonella emodi is native: Afghanistan, Tibet, East Himalaya, Nepal, Pakistan, West Himalaya AfghanistanTibetEast HimalayaNepalPakistanWest Himalaya
Native distribution of Trigonella emodi, 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
East Himalaya EHM ASIA-TROPICAL
Nepal NEP
Pakistan PAK
West Himalaya WHM
Afghanistan AFG ASIA-TEMPERATE
Tibet CHT

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 19 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.

  • Botryolotus cachemyrianus Jaub. & Spach
  • Melilotus emodi Graham
  • Melissitus cachemirianus (Jaub. & Spach) Latsch.
  • Melissitus emodi (Benth.) Latsch.
  • Melissitus fimbriatus (Royle ex Benth.) Latsch.
  • Pocockia cachemirica (Benth.) Boiss.
  • Telis emodi (Benth.) Kuntze
  • Telis kotschyi Kuntze
  • Trigonella emodi f. acutiuscula Širj.
  • Trigonella emodi f. pilosa Širj.
  • Trigonella emodi f. violacea Širj.
  • Trigonella emodi subsp. fimbriata (Royle ex Benth.) H.Ohashi
  • Trigonella emodi var. fimbriata (Royle ex Benth.) Širj.
  • Trigonella emodi var. himalaica Širj.
  • Trigonella emodi var. litvinovii Širj.
  • Trigonella emodi var. oblongifolia Balodi & R.R.Rao
  • Trigonella fimbriata Royle ex Benth.
  • Trigonella himalaica Wall. ex Baker
  • Trigonella kotschyi Boiss.

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.