Plant Details

Accepted name:: Tamarix nilotica (Ehrenb.) Bunge [Tamaricaceae]
Source:: World Checklist ( Medium Taxonomic Confidence )
More about this plant:: Plants of the World Online

Non-scientific name:	Class of name:	Medicinal source:
tamarisk	Other	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
tarfa	Other	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
tarfaa	Other	Trad. Med. Pl. of Al-Rass Province, Saudi Arabia (El-Ghazali et al., 2010) Trad. Use of Ethnomed. Pl. of Saudi Arabia (Aati et al., 2019)
uvari	Other	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
zizinda	Other	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)

Part(s) of plant used:	Drug form:	Medicinal source:
Leaves, seeds	Seed oil	Trad. Use of Ethnomed. Pl. of Saudi Arabia (Aati et al., 2019)

Kew's taxonomic resources include 29 scientific synonym(s) for this plant:

Tamarix arabica Bunge Tent. Gen. Tamar.: 55 (1852).
Tamarix gallica var. abiadensis Zohary Trop. Woods 104: 46 (1956).
Tamarix gallica var. anisandra Zohary Trop. Woods 104: 45 (1956).
Tamarix gallica var. ascalonica Zohary Trop. Woods 104: 48 (1956).
Tamarix gallica var. brevispica Zohary Trop. Woods 104: 46 (1956).
Tamarix gallica f. cinerea Ehrenb. Linnaea 2: 269 (1827).
Tamarix gallica var. divergens Zohary Trop. Woods 104: 47 (1956).
Tamarix gallica var. eilathensis Zohary Trop. Woods 104: 46 (1956).
Tamarix gallica var. erythrocarpa Zohary Trop. Woods 104: 48 (1956).
Tamarix gallica f. glaucescens Ehrenb. Linnaea 2: 269 (1827).
Tamarix gallica var. longispica Zohary Trop. Woods 104: 45 (1956).
Tamarix gallica var. maris-mortui (Gutmann) Zohary Trop. Woods 104: 44 (1956).
Tamarix gallica var. micrantha Zohary Trop. Woods 104: 46 (1956), nom. illeg.
Tamarix gallica var. microcarpa Zohary Trop. Woods 104: 47 (1956).
Tamarix gallica subsp. nilotica (Ehrenb.) Maire Mém. Soc. Hist. Nat. Afrique N. 3: 155 (1933).
Tamarix gallica var. nilotica Ehrenb. Linnaea 2: 269 (1827).
Tamarix gallica var. subpatens Zohary Trop. Woods 104: 49 (1956).
Tamarix gallica var. tenuior Zohary Trop. Woods 104: 49 (1956).
Tamarix maris-mortui Gutmann Palestine J. Bot., Jerusalem Ser. 4: 50 (1947).
Tamarix nilotica var. abyssinica Hochst. ex Bunge Tent. Gen. Tamar.: 55 (1852).
Tamarix nilotica var. anisandra (Zohary) Zohary Fl. Palaestina 2: 358 (1972).
Tamarix nilotica var. arabica (Bunge) Hosni Taeckholmia 20: 23 (2000).
Tamarix nilotica var. brevispica (Zohary) Zohary Fl. Palaestina 2: 357 (1972).
Tamarix nilotica var. divergens (Zohary) Zohary Fl. Palaestina 2: 358 (1972).
Tamarix nilotica var. eilathensis (Zohary) Zohary Fl. Palaestina 2: 358 (1972).
Tamarix nilotica var. micrantha Zohary Fl. Palaestina 2: 357 (1972).
Tamarix nilotica var. microcarpa (Zohary) Zohary Fl. Palaestina 2: 358 (1972).
Tamarix nilotica var. tenuior (Zohary) Zohary Fl. Palaestina 2: 358 (1972).
Tamarix scebelensis Chiov. Fl. Somala 1: 93 (1929).

This plant is cited in medicinal sources using the following names:

Name as published:	Medicinal source:
Tamarix nilotica (Ehrenb.) Bunge	World Checklist of Useful Pl. Spp. (Diazgranados et al., 2020)
Tamarix nilotica (Ehrenb.)Bunge	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999) SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 2020)
Tamarix nilotica Ehrenb	Trad. Med. Pl. of Al-Rass Province, Saudi Arabia (El-Ghazali et al., 2010)
Tamarix nilotica Ehrenb.	Trad. Use of Ethnomed. Pl. of Saudi Arabia (Aati et al., 2019)

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