Amaranthaceae
Traganum

Traganum nudatum Delile

First published in Descr. Egypte, Hist. Nat. 2(Mém.): 204 (1813)
This species is accepted
The native range of this species is Sahara to Iraq and Arabian Peninsula. It is a subshrub or shrub and grows primarily in the desert or dry shrubland biome.

Descriptions

Extinction risk predictions for the world's flowering plants to support their conservation (2024). Bachman, S.P., Brown, M.J.M., Leão, T.C.C., Lughadha, E.N., Walker, B.E. https://nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/nph.19592

Conservation
Predicted extinction risk: not threatened. Confidence: confident
[AERP]

Ghazanfar, S. A. & Edmondson, J. R (Eds). (2016) Flora of Iraq, Volume 5 Part 1: Elatinaceae to Sphenocleaceae.

Morphology General Habit
Shrublet to 50 cm
Morphology Stem
Stem divaricately branched, with wooly tufts of hairs in the leaf axils, in other parts glabrous, rarely stem and leaves papillate
Morphology Leaves
Leaves alternate, fleshy, semiterete, the lower (spring) leaves to 10(–15) mm, other ones up to 5 mm, short cuspidate or obtuse
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Perianth
Perianth glabrous, membraneous; tubus indurated, without appendages or with small protuberances.
Ecology
Deserts. Probably rare; alt. ;
Phenology
Flowering: Mar.–Apr.; fruiting: May–Jun.
Distribution
Iraq.
[FIQ]

Sources

  • Angiosperm Extinction Risk Predictions v1

    • Angiosperm Threat Predictions
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

  • Flora of Iraq

    • Ghazanfar, S. A., Edmondson, J. R. (Eds). (2013-2019). Flora of Iraq, Volumes 5.1, 5.2 and 6.0. Kew Publishing
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

  • Kew Backbone Distributions

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2025. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

  • Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2025. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

  • Kew Science Photographs

    • Copyright applied to individual images