Cornulaca monacantha

''Cornulaca monacantha'' is a species of flowering plant in the genus ''Cornulaca'', that is now included in the family Amaranthaceae, . It is a desert plant found in the Middle East and the Sahara, and the southern end of its range is considered to delineate the edge of the desert. In Arabic it is known as ''had'' and ''djouri'', and the Tuareg people call it ''tahara''. It was first described in 1813 by the French botanist Alire Raffeneau Delile.