Taxon: Alhagi maurorum Medik.

A declared aquatic or terrestrial noxious weed and/or noxious-weed seed in these U.S. states (see state noxious weed lists), with links to state information or web documents:

AZ°, AZ(as Alhagi pseudalhagi)*, CA*, CA(as Alhagi pseudalhagi)°, CO(as Alhagi pseudalhagi)*°, HI°, ID°, ID(as Alhagi camelorum)°, NM(as Alhagi camelorum)°, NM(as Alhagi pseudalhagi)*, NV(as Alhagi camelorum)°, NV(as Alhagi pseudalhagi)*, OR(as Alhagi camelorum)°, OR(as Alhagi pseudalhagi)*, TX(as Alhagi camelorum)*, WA*, WA(as Alhagi camelorum)°, WY°.

ªAquatic.

*Terrestrial.

°In seed.

Link to noxious weed information from

Common names:

• camelthorn   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  
• camelthorn-bush   (Source: Weeds SAfr 2001 ) – English
  
• Caspian manna   (Source: Noxweed Aust ) – English
  
• Persian mannaplant   (Source: Kuwait Pl ) – English
  
• kameeldoringbos   (Source: Weeds SAfr 2001 ) – Afrikaans
  
• 'aaqool   (Source: Ill L Qatar ) – Arabic
  
• jawansa   (Source: Names Watson ) – India
  
• mannaklöver   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

Economic importance:

• Human food: sugar   (source of manna fide Dict Econ Pl, as A. camelorum; Leg WAsia)
  
• Medicines: folklore   (fide Leg WAsia; Herbs Commerce ed2)
  
• Weed: potential seed contaminant   (fide Econ Pl Aust; Weeds SAfr 2001)
  

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Distributional range:

• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Arabian Peninsula: Kuwait
  Western Asia: Afghanistan; Cyprus; Iran; Iraq; Israel; Jordan; Lebanon; Syria; Turkey
  Caucasus: Armenia; Azerbaijan; Russian Federation - Ciscaucasia, Dagestan
  Siberia: Russian Federation - Western Siberia [s.]
  Middle Asia: Kazakhstan; Tajikistan; Turkmenistan; Uzbekistan
  Mongolia: Mongolia
  China: China [n.w.]
• ASIA-TROPICAL
  Indian Subcontinent: India [n.]; Pakistan
• EUROPE
  East Europe: Russian Federation - European part [s.]

• AUSTRALASIA
  Australia: Australia
• NORTHERN AMERICA
  United States [s.w.]

References:

• Aldén, B., S. Ryman & M. Hjertson. 2009. Våra kulturväxters namn - ursprung och användning. Formas, Stockholm (Handbook on Swedish cultivated and utility plants, their names and origin).
• Ali, S. I. & S. M. H. Jafri, eds. 1976–. Flora of Libya.
• Awmack, C. S. & J. M. Lock. 2002. The genus Alhagi (Leguminosae: Papilionoideae) in the Middle East. Kew Bull. 57:440–441.
• Cronquist, A. et al. 1972–. Intermountain flora.
• Davis, P. H., ed. 1965–1988. Flora of Turkey and the east Aegean islands. [in part = A. mannifera Desv.].
• Encke, F. et al. 1984. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 13. Auflage. [excluding synonymy].
• Graham, E. H. 1941. Legumes for erosion control and wildlife. USDA Misc. Publ. 412. [= A. camelorum].
• Gruenberg-Fertig & M. Zohary. 1970. Nomenclatural remarks on some plants of Palestine. Part I. Israel J. Bot. 19:294.
• Henderson, L. 2001. Alien weeds and invasive plants: a complete guide to declared weeds and invaders in South Africa. Plant Protection Research Institute, Handbook 12.
• Holm, L. et al. 1979. A geographical atlas of world weeds.
• Inst. Bot. V. L. Komarova, Acad. Sci. URSS. 1963–. Plantae asiae centralis.
• Isely, D. 1998. Native and naturalized Leguminosae (Fabaceae) of the United States (exclusive of Alaska and Hawaii).
• Jessop, J. P. & H. R. Toelken, eds. 1986. Flora of South Australia, ed. 4.
• Lazarides, M. & B. Hince. 1993. CSIRO Handbook of Economic Plants of Australia.
• Lock, J. M. & K. Simpson. 1991. Legumes of West Asia: a checklist.
• McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. 2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2.
• Middleditch, B. S. & A. M. Amer. 1991. Kuwaiti plants: distribution, traditional medicine, phytochemistry,. economic value (Studies in Plant Science 2).
• Nasir, E. & S. I. Ali, eds. 1970–. Flora of [West] Pakistan.
• Norton, J. et al. 2009. Illustrated checklist of the flora of Qatar.
• Parsons, W. T. & E. G. Cuthbertson. 1992. Noxious weeds of Australia.
• Rechinger, K. H., ed. 1963–. Flora iranica. [in part = A. pseudalhagi (M. Bieb.) Desv.].
• Rollins, R. C. & I. A. Al-Shehbaz. 1986. Weeds of south-west Asia in North America with special reference to the Cruciferae. Proc. Roy. Soc. Edinburgh 89B:297.
• Seed Regulatory and Testing Branch, Agricultural Marketing Service, U.S.D.A. 1999. State noxious-weed seed requirements recognized in the administration of the Federal Seed Act.
• Townsend, C. C. & E. Guest. 1966–. Flora of Iraq. [a nom. ambig. = A. camelorum Fisch.].
• Watson, J. F. 1868. Index to the native and scientific names of Indian and other eastern economic plants and products.
• Yakovlev, G. P. 1979. Remarks on the taxonomy of the genus Alhagi Fabaceae (in Russian). Bot. Zhurn. (Moscow & Leningrad) 64:1798.

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Synonyms:

• (=) Alhagi camelorum Fisch.
  (previously associated with 2 accessions)
• (=) Alhagi pseudalhagi (M. Bieb.) Desv. ex B. Keller & Shap.
  (previously associated with 3 accessions)
• (≡) Hedysarum alhagi L.
  
• (=) Hedysarum pseudalhagi M. Bieb.
  (previously associated with 1 accession)

Check other web resources for Alhagi maurorum Medik.:

• PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
• BONAP: North American Plant Atlas of the Biota of North America Program
• AVH: Australia's Virtual Herbarium
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• ILDIS: World Database of Legumes
• Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
• ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
• Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.

Images or nodulation data:

• GRIN nodulation data

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• Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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