Zygophyllum qatarenseHadidi

WFO wfo-0000429747 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 4 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 4 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.

Zygophyllum qatarense, photographed by Arabella Willing
fig. a Arabella Willing, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-02-04 / obs. 111947887
Zygophyllum qatarense, photographed by Carrie Seltzer
fig. b Carrie Seltzer, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 5836483
Zygophyllum qatarense, photographed by Morten Ross
fig. c Morten Ross, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 180858358
Zygophyllum qatarense, photographed by pavlaki1968
fig. d pavlaki1968, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 183245843
Zygophyllum qatarense, photographed by Arabella Willing
fig. e Arabella Willing, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 111947893
Zygophyllum qatarense, photographed by Carrie Seltzer
fig. f Carrie Seltzer, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 5836485
Zygophyllum qatarense, photographed by Morten Ross
fig. g Morten Ross, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 180858621
Zygophyllum qatarense, photographed by pavlaki1968
fig. h pavlaki1968, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 183245853

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Native range 6 botanical countries

Regions where Zygophyllum qatarense is native: Socotra, Gulf States, Kuwait, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Yemen Gulf StatesKuwaitOmanSaudi ArabiaYemen
Native distribution of Zygophyllum qatarense, 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
Gulf States GST ASIA-TEMPERATE
Kuwait KUW
Oman OMA
Saudi Arabia SAU
Yemen YEM
Socotra SOC AFRICA

Not drawn on the map: Socotra. We hold no public-domain boundary for this region, so it is listed rather than guessed at.

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 3 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.

  • Tetraena hamiensis var. qatarensis (Hadidi) Alzahrani & Albokhari
  • Tetraena qatarensis (Hadidi) Beier & Thulin
  • Zygophyllum hamiense var. qatarense (Hadidi) Jac.Thomas & Chaudhary

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.