Taxon: Tamarix aphylla (L.) H. Karst.

• the 9 historical accession(s) associated with this name.
• Check PlantSearch database of Botanic Gardens Conservation International for possible non-NPGS germplasm.

Common names:

• athel tamarisk   (Source: Names Beetle ) – English
  
• athel-pine   (Source: Noxweed Aust ) – English
  
• atheltree   (Source: Weeds SAfr 2001 ) – English
  
• desert tamarix   (Source: Weeds SAfr 2001 ) – English
  
• salt-cedar   (Source: Firewood Cr ) – English
  
• woestyntamarisk   (Source: Weeds SAfr 2001 ) – Afrikaans
  
• tamaris   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French
  
• Tamariske   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – German
  
• farash   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – India
  
• taray   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  

Economic importance:

• Environmental: erosion control   (may cause salinization fide Firewood Cr)
  
• Environmental: firebreak   (may cause salinization fide Firewood Cr)
  
• Environmental: ornamental   (fide F India; F Pak; Firewood Cr; Invasive Pl Spec)
  
• Environmental: revegetator   (fide F India; F Pak; Firewood Cr; Invasive Pl Spec)
  
• Environmental: shade/shelter   (fide F India; F Pak; Firewood Cr; Invasive Pl Spec)
  
• Fuels: charcoal   (fide Firewood Cr)
  
• Fuels: fuelwood   (fide Firewood Cr)
  
• Materials: tannin/dyestuff   (fide F India)
  
• Materials: wood   (fide F India)
  
• Medicines: folklore   (fide F India)
  
• Weed: potential seed contaminant   (fide Rep NCEPPC; Invasive Pl Spec)
  

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View ethnobotanical data from Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Distributional range:

• AFRICA
  Northern Africa: Algeria; Egypt; Libya; Morocco; Tunisia
  Northeast Tropical Africa: Eritrea; Ethiopia; Somalia; Sudan
  East Tropical Africa: Kenya
  West Tropical Africa: Mauritania; Senegal
• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Arabian Peninsula: Saudi Arabia; Yemen
  Western Asia: Afghanistan; Egypt - Sinai; Iran [s.]
• ASIA-TROPICAL
  Indian Subcontinent: India - Delhi, Gujarat, Haryana, Punjab, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh; Pakistan

• AFRICA
  Southern Africa: Namibia
• AUSTRALASIA
  Australia: Australia
• NORTHERN AMERICA
  South-Central U.S.A.: United States - Texas
  Southwestern U.S.A.: United States - Arizona, California, Nevada, Utah
  Southern Mexico: Mexico - Jalisco
• PACIFIC
  North-Central Pacific: United States - Hawaii

• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Arabian Peninsula: Kuwait
  Western Asia: Iraq; Israel; Jordan

References:

• Ali, S. I. & S. M. H. Jafri, eds. 1976–. Flora of Libya.
• Baldwin, B. G. et al., eds. The Jepson manual: vascular plants of California (on-line resource).
• Baum, B. R. 1978. The genus Tamarix. 81.
• Beetle, A. A. 1970. Recommended plant names. Univ. Wyoming Agr. Exp. Sta. Res. J. 31.
• Campbell, F. T., ed. 1995. Report of National Coalition of Exotic Plant Pest Councils. (unpublished draft)
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop (on-line resource).
• George, A. S., ed. 1980–. Flora of Australia.
• Germishuizen, G. & N. L. Meyer, eds. 2003. Plants of southern Africa: an annotated checklist. Strelitzia 14.
• Hedberg, I. & S. Edwards. 1989–. Flora of Ethiopia. (and Eritrea. 2000)
• 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.
• Hnatiuk, R. J. 1990. Census of Australian vascular plants. Australian Flora and Fauna Series No. 11.
• Holm, L. et al. 1979. A geographical atlas of world weeds.
• Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening.
• Kartesz, J. T. 2011. North American plant atlas. The Biota of North America Program (BONAP).
• Lazarides, M. & B. Hince. 1993. CSIRO Handbook of Economic Plants of Australia.
• Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third.
• Matthew, K. M. 1983. The flora of the Tamilnadu Carnatic.
• McVaugh, R. 1983–. Flora Novo-Galiciana.
• Migahid, A. M. 1988–1990. Flora of Saudi Arabia, ed. 3.
• Nasir, E. & S. I. Ali, eds. 1970–. Flora of [West] Pakistan.
• National Academy of Sciences. 1980. Firewood crops. Shrub and tree species for energy production.
• Parsons, W. T. & E. G. Cuthbertson. 1992. Noxious weeds of Australia.
• Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants.
• Sharma, B. D. et al., eds. 1993–. Flora of India.
• Thulin, M., ed. 1993–. Flora of Somalia.
• Townsend, C. C. & E. Guest. 1966–. Flora of Iraq.
• Turrill, W. B. et al., eds. 1952–. Flora of tropical East Africa.
• USDA National Agricultural Library. National Invasive Species Information Center (on-line resource).
• Weber, E. 2003. Invasive plant species of the world: a reference guide to environmental weeds.
• Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994–. Flora of China (English edition).

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Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Tamarix aphylla.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Tamarix aphylla.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Tamarix aphylla.

Synonyms:

• (≡) Tamarix articulata Vahl
  (previously associated with 5 accessions)
• (≡) Thuja aphylla L. (basionym)
  

Check other web resources for Tamarix aphylla (L.) H. Karst.:

• 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
• Flora of China: Online version from Harvard University
• AVH: Australia's Virtual Herbarium
• ABRS: Australian Biological Resources Study Flora of Australia online
• SIBIS: South African National Biodiversity Institute's (SANBI) Integrated Biodiversity System
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
• ICRA: International Cultivar Registration Authority (on-line resource). for Tamarix aphylla cultivars
• 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.

Check other web resources for images:

• PlantSystematics.org
• 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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