Trigonella stellataForssk.

WFO wfo-0000212955 Accepted WFO 2026-06 5 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–e · 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.

Trigonella stellata, photographed by Mitch Van Dyke
fig. a Mitch Van Dyke, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-03-25 / obs. 186824374
Trigonella stellata, photographed by Kristof Zyskowski
fig. b Kristof Zyskowski, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 36468718
Trigonella stellata, photographed by Mattia Menchetti
fig. c Mattia Menchetti, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 6543684
Trigonella stellata, photographed by Mitch Van Dyke
fig. d Mitch Van Dyke, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 186824460
Trigonella stellata, photographed by Mattia Menchetti
fig. e Mattia Menchetti, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 6544044

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Native range 17 botanical countries

Regions where Trigonella stellata is native: Algeria, Canary Is., Egypt, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Tunisia, Gulf States, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Lebanon-Syria, Oman, Palestine, Saudi Arabia, Sinai, Turkmenistan AlgeriaEgyptLibyaMauritaniaMoroccoTunisiaGulf StatesIranIraqKuwaitLebanon-SyriaOmanPalestineSaudi ArabiaSinaiTurkmenistan Canary Is.
Native distribution of Trigonella stellata, 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
Gulf States GST ASIA-TEMPERATE
Iran IRN
Iraq IRQ
Kuwait KUW
Lebanon-Syria LBS
Oman OMA
Palestine PAL
Saudi Arabia SAU
Sinai SIN
Turkmenistan TKM
Algeria ALG AFRICA
Canary Is. CNY
Egypt EGY
Libya LBY
Mauritania MTN
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 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.

  • Medicago stellata (Forssk.) Trautv.
  • Telis stellata (Forssk.) Kuntze
  • Trigonella aegyptiaca Steud.
  • Trigonella cancellata Desf. ex Spreng.
  • Trigonella cancellata Pers.
  • Trigonella egyptiaca Poir.
  • Trigonella elongata Link
  • Trigonella hamosa var. microcarpa (Fresen.) Webb
  • Trigonella microcarpa Fresen.
  • Trigonella polyantha Desv.

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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