Tamarix aphylla
Mauritania, Senegal, N-Mali, N-Niger, N-Chad (Tibesti), Sudan, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Djibouti, Somalia, NE-Kenya, Socotra, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Afghanistan (I), Phoenix Isl. (I) (Canton (I)), Bahrain, Egypt (Desert Oases, Eastern Desert, Great Southwestern Desert, NE-Egypt, Nile Delta, Nile Valley, NW-coastal Egypt, SE-Egypt), Iran (EC-Iran, E-Iran, S-Iran), Iraq (SE-Iraq: Mesopotamia, S-Iraq, W-Iraq: Desert), Israel (Rift Valley, Negev Desert), Kuwait, Oman (Mascat & Oman), Saudi Arabia (C-Saudi Arabia, Dahana, NE-Saudi Arabia, N-Saudi Arabia, Hejaz, Asir, Nejd Desert), Sinai peninsula (C-Sinai, N-Sinai, S-Sinai), United Arab Emirates, Qatar (I), Yemen (Aden Desert, Inner Hadhramaut, SW-Yemen, Tihama), India (Punjab, Haryana, Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, Gujarat, Tamil Nadu), Pakistan (Sind, Karachi, Baluchistan, Waziristan, N.W.Frontier Prov., Pakistani Punjab, Jhelum, Rawalpindi), Australia (I) (Northern Territory (I), South Australia (I), Queensland (I)), Taiwan (I), USA (I) (Arizona (I), California (I), Nevada (I), Texas (I), Utah (I)), Haiti (I), Dominican Republic (I), Puerto Rico (I), Virgin Isl. (I) (St. Croix (I)), Mexico (I), Namibia (I) 151428 0
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Alien: Present on the eastern side of the Akrotiri Salt Lake (Pescott, Mountford & Peyton, pers. obs.) Also listed by Osorio-Tafall & Seraphim (1973).
It is cultivated mostly as a windbreak on farmlands, on the lowlands (Tsintides et al. 2002).
Introduced in the 1940s through forestry.
Osorio-Tafall BF, Seraphim GM (1973) List of the Vascular Plants of Cyprus. Ministry of Agriculture and Natural Resources, Nicosia, Cyprus.
Tsintides T, Hadjikyriakou GN, Christodoulou CS (2002) Trees and shrubs in Cyprus. Foundation Anastasios G. Leventis—Cyprus Forest Association, Nicosia, Cyprus.