Volutaria muricata(L.) Maire

WFO wfo-0000118698 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 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.

Volutaria muricata, photographed by Oleg Kosterin
fig. a Oleg Kosterin, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-05-15 / obs. 175718924
Volutaria muricata, photographed by Olivier Argagnon
fig. b Olivier Argagnon, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 63278469
Volutaria muricata, photographed by Oleg Kosterin
fig. c Oleg Kosterin, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 175718932
Volutaria muricata, photographed by Oleg Kosterin
fig. d Oleg Kosterin, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 175718938
Volutaria muricata, photographed by Olivier Argagnon
fig. e Olivier Argagnon, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 63278461
Volutaria muricata, photographed by Olivier Argagnon
fig. f Olivier Argagnon, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 63278467
Volutaria muricata, photographed by J Mark Earlam
fig. g J Mark Earlam, CC0 1.0 / obs. 194985365
Volutaria muricata, photographed by Olivier Argagnon
fig. h Olivier Argagnon, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 63278418

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Native range 3 botanical countries

Regions where Volutaria muricata is native: Algeria, Morocco, Spain AlgeriaMoroccoSpain
Native distribution of Volutaria muricata, 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
Algeria ALG AFRICA
Morocco MOR
Spain SPA EUROPE

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 16 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.

  • Amberboa micractis Boiss. & Reut.
  • Amberboa muricata (L.) DC.
  • Amberboa muricata subsp. micractis Boiss.
  • Amberboa muricata subsp. muricata
  • Amberboa muricata var. micractis (Boiss.) Batt.
  • Amberboa muricata var. muricata
  • Calcitrapa elongata Moench
  • Centaurea muricata L.
  • Centaurea pubigera Pers.
  • Cyanopsis muricata (L.) Dostál
  • Cyanopsis muricata var. muricata
  • Cyanopsis radicatissima Cass.
  • Volutarella muricata (L.) Benth. & Hook.f.
  • Volutaria muricata var. eradiata (Braun-Blanq. & Maire) Maire
  • Volutaria muricata var. micractis (Boiss.) Maire
  • Volutaria muricata var. muricata

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.