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Aethionema armenum Boiss.

Brassicaceae · Transcaucasus, Lebanon-Syria +1

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Summary

Aethionema armenum, also called rock cress, stonecress, or Persian candytuft, is a low-growing evergreen shrub in the family Brassicaceae native to the Mediterranean. There, it is typically found on rocky slopes above 800 meters.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Aethionema armenum", CC BY-SA 4.0.

Cultivation

Nothing derived: no habitat climate for this species.

Climate across the habitat

No habitat climate can be derived: Only 2 distinct land cells of the climate grid hold an in-range record placed to within 10 km; three are needed for an envelope. 17 of the 19 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or to no stated accuracy and fewer than three decimals or by something other than a person's observation, and cannot place a climate cell, though they count for the map and its marker.

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP; the marker is where the records are densest and decides nothing.
Openly licensed records inside the range, framed on where they fall.
NativeTranscaucasus, Lebanon-Syria, Turkey · regions are the level-3 units of the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, as Kew's World Checklist records ranges, some under historical names such as Yugoslavia or Czechoslovakia (how).
Map marker39.201, 37.234 · in the densest population, 10 records (53% of those in range)
Kew's description“subshrub” · “temperate” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 19 georeferenced records inside the native range; the map shows only the 16 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker 5 km away. No climate across the range is derived for this species. 17 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or with no stated accuracy (admitted only as a person's observation to three decimals), and stay on the map but off the climate.
How this section is made
The map marker: the openly licensed record nearest the middle of the densest 1° population inside the densest 2° block of the 19 in-range records; it decides nothing. Records outside the native range, living specimens and records marked introduced are not used; which records count.

Photographs

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Photographs: Joey Bom, CC BY, iNaturalist via GBIF; Ghislain118 https://www.fleurs-des-montagnes.net, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons; Ghislain118 http://www.fleurs-des-montagnes.net, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (3); Anna reg, CC BY-SA 3.0 at, via Wikimedia Commons.

Other Aethionema 8 in the reference

Aethionema arabicum Aethionema arabicum Brassicaceae Photo: CC0, author not statedAethionema coridifolium Aethionema coridifolium Brassicaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, Leonora (Ellie) Enking from East… Aethionema glaucinum Brassicaceae Aethionema grandiflorum Aethionema grandiflorum Persian candytuft Photo: CC BY, DaveAethionema saxatile Aethionema saxatile Burnt Candytuft Photo: CC BY, mycoroco Aethionema schistosum Brassicaceae Aethionema speciosum Brassicaceae Aethionema thomasianum Aethionema thomasianum Brassicaceae Photo: CC BY, I would appreciate being notified if…

Names & registers

Also known as Aethionema armenum var. papillosum; Aethionema polygaloides; Aethionema pseudarmenum; Aethionema purpureum. (GBIF Backbone)

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The record

Family
Brassicaceae
Described by
Boiss.
Native to
Transcaucasus, Lebanon-Syria, Turkey
Wild records
19 in range · 16 open

Every figure here is derived from public data by a stated rule and names its source; nothing about this species is written for its page by a person or by AI, apart from the marked, credited quotations. How →

Where this page came from built 2026-10-21
GBIF species record gbif.species answeredasked 2026-10-21
GBIF synonyms gbif.synonyms answeredasked 2026-10-21
GBIF common names gbif.vernacular answeredasked 2026-10-21names fetched 2026-10-21
WCVP native range wcvp.distribution answeredas of 2026-06-04
GBIF occurrence records gbif.occurrences answeredas of 2026-10-21GBIF occurrence download https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.hbdw64, of 2026-10-21; 1 record within 1 km of a botanic garden, herbarium or zoo left out (1 at a botanic garden or arboretum; Wikidata's list)
Habitat climate climate nothing to reportasked 2026-10-21only 2 distinct land cells of the climate grid hold an in-range record placed to within 10 km; three are needed for an envelope
Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-21
Wikipedia wikipedia answeredasked 2026-10-21
iNaturalist taxon inat.taxon not asked
iNaturalist photographs, wild inat.photos.wild not asked
iNaturalist photographs, cultivated inat.photos.cultivated not asked
GBIF media gbif.media answeredasked 2026-10-21
Wikimedia Commons commons answeredasked 2026-10-21
OpenAlex papers openalex not askednot yet asked for this reference; a later fill takes the papers from OpenAlex's snapshot

Every source is recorded as having answered, reported nothing, refused, failed, not been asked, or answered twice where one answer is taken (“not taken: two items answered”), and, for a source asked when this page was built, when: the figures are as the source held them that day; a source read from a file (Kew's World Checklist, a GBIF download) says "as of" the file's day instead; a row carried from an earlier build of the page names that build instead. Only “nothing to report” is ever shown as an absence. Records came from 7 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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