Kew Species Profile, Plants of the World Online gives the following habitat information for Salvadora persica: sites where the species is deliberately planted as a windbreak.
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Kew Species Profile, Plants of the World Online gives the following habitat information for Salvadora persica: sites where the species is deliberately planted as a windbreak.
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The USDA's GRIN database records this plant as native to: Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Somalia, Sudan, Algeria, Egypt, Morocco, Angola, Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Botswana, Namibia, South Africa (parts), Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Cameroon, Mauritius, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Iran, Palestine, Jordan, Syria, India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. The Flora of Pakistan describes it as widespread in the dry regions of Pakistan, Arabia, Palestine, Syria and Africa.
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Approved version OWNER-REVIEW-20261108T085903901 · last approved 8 November 2026
The Catalogue of Life and the World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP) add countries not previously listed for the range of the arak (Salvadora persica): Libya, Mauritania, Senegal, Burkina Faso, Chad, Djibouti, Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates. WCVP and the Catalogue of Life classify Cameroon as an introduced (non-native) range, whereas another source regards it as native, so this is a point of disagreement between sources.