- Family:
- Orobanchaceae Vent.
Orobanche L.

[FSOM]
M. Thulin et al. Flora of Somalia, Vol. 1-4 [updated 2008] https://plants.jstor.org/collection/FLOS
- Morphology General Habit
- Often fleshy herbs
- Morphology Leaves
- Scale-like leaves few to many
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences
- Flowers few to many in terminal spike or raceme; bracts present, scale-like; bracteoles 2 or absent
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Calyx
- Calyx campanulate, with (2–)4–5 acute teeth, sometimes split to the base into 2 free segments
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Corolla
- Corolla tubular to funnel-shaped, with 2-lipped limb, upper lip 2-lobed, lower lip 3-lobed
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Androecium Stamens
- Stamens included
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Gynoecium Ovary
- Ovary 1-celled with 4 placentas; stigma 2-lobed, peltate or funnel-shaped
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits
- Capsule ovoid
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Seeds
- Seeds subglobose, minute.
- Distribution
- Some 160 species mainly in temperate to subtropical regions of the northern hemisphere.
[FTEA]
Orobanchaceae, R. A. Graham. Flora of Tropical East Africa. 1957
- Morphology General Habit
- Stems erect, seldom fleshy in E. African spp., scaly, simple or branched, singly or in clusters
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences
- Inflorescence a cylindrical spike or spiciform raceme
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers
- Flowers very congested to long interrupted, bracteate, with or without bracteoles (2)
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences Bracts
- Bracts similar to the scales
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Calyx
- Calyx campanulate, sessile or stalked, (2–) 4–5 dentate, gamosepalous, or split dorsally and ventrally into two free sections
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Corolla
- Corolla tubular, the lobes of the limb arranged in two unequal parts as an upper and lower lip; upper lip of two equal, lower lip of three equal or unequal lobes
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Androecium Stamens
- Stamens not or scarcely protruding; filaments glabrous to glandular hairy; anther cells parallel or slightly diverging
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Gynoecium Pistil
- Style terminally decurved; stigma distinctly or obscurely bilobed, peltate, or funnel-shaped
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits
- Capsule ovoid-ellipsoid or ovoid-spheroid.
[FZ]
Scrophulariaceae, D. Philcox. Flora Zambesiaca 8:2. 1990
- Morphology General Habit
- Parasitic perennial, biennial or annual herbs, lacking chlorophyll, usually covered with gland-tipped hairs; stems erect, simple or branched, stout or slender, slightly succulent or not, of ten thickened or more or less woody at the base.
- Morphology Leaves Scale leaves
- Leaves occurring as large scales.
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences
- Inflorescence spicate or racemose.
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers
- Flowers sessile or shortly pedicellate, congested to laxly arranged, bracteate; bracteoles 2 or absent.
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Calyx
- Calyx campanulate, 3–5-lobed, or divided to base into two bifid or bilobed segments.
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Corolla
- Corolla tubular, usually curved, throat somewhat widened, strongly bilabiate; upper lip entire, emarginate or bifid or bilobed, with equal lobes; lower lip 3-lobed, lobes equal or unequal with prominent folds between.
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Androecium Stamens
- Stamens 4, didynamous, included or nearly so, inserted below middle of tube; filaments usually thickened towards base, glabrous to glandular-hairy; anthers of ten cohering, thecae parallel or somewhat divergent, mucronate.
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits
- Capsule bivalved, ovoid-globose or ovoid-ellipsoid, loculicidally dehiscent.
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Seeds
- Seeds numerous, minute, subglobose.
Native to:
Afghanistan, Alabama, Alaska, Albania, Alberta, Algeria, Altay, Amur, Argentina Northeast, Argentina Northwest, Argentina South, Arizona, Arkansas, Assam, Austria, Azores, Baleares, Baltic States, Bangladesh, Belarus, Belgium, British Columbia, Bulgaria, Buryatiya, California, Canary Is., Central European Rus, Chad, Chile Central, Chile North, China North-Central, China South-Central, China Southeast, Chita, Colorado, Connecticut, Corse, Cyprus, Czechoslovakia, Delaware, Denmark, District of Columbia, Djibouti, East Aegean Is., East European Russia, East Himalaya, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Florida, France, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Gulf States, Hungary, Idaho, Illinois, India, Indiana, Inner Mongolia, Iowa, Iran, Iraq, Ireland, Irkutsk, Italy, Japan, Kansas, Kazakhstan, Kentucky, Kenya, Khabarovsk, Kirgizstan, Korea, Krasnoyarsk, Kriti, Krym, Kuril Is., Kuwait, Lebanon-Syria, Libya, Madeira, Maine, Malawi, Mali, Manchuria, Manitoba, Maryland, Massachusetts, Mauritania, Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southwest, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Mongolia, Montana, Morocco, Mozambique, Nebraska, Nepal, Netherlands, Nevada, New Brunswick, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New South Wales, New York, Newfoundland, North Carolina, North Caucasus, North Dakota, Northwest European R, Norway, Nova Scotia, Ogasawara-shoto, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oman, Ontario, Oregon, Pakistan, Palestine, Pennsylvania, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Primorye, Prince Edward I., Qinghai, Québec, Rhode I., Romania, Rwanda, Sakhalin, Sardegna, Saskatchewan, Saudi Arabia, Sicilia, Sinai, Socotra, Somalia, South Australia, South Carolina, South Dakota, South European Russi, Spain, Sudan, Sweden, Switzerland, Tadzhikistan, Tanzania, Tennessee, Texas, Tibet, Transcaucasus, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkey-in-Europe, Turkmenistan, Tuva, Uganda, Ukraine, Utah, Uzbekistan, Vermont, Victoria, Virginia, Washington, West Himalaya, West Siberia, West Virginia, Western Australia, Western Sahara, Wisconsin, Wyoming, Xinjiang, Yakutskiya, Yemen, Yugoslavia, Yukon, Zambia, Zimbabwe
Introduced into:
Cape Provinces, Colombia, Costa Rica, Georgia, Mauritius, Namibia, New Zealand North, Norfolk Is., Northern Provinces, Réunion
- Orobanche aconiti-lycoctoni Moreno Mor., G.Gómez, Ó.Sánchez, Carlón & M.Laínz
- Orobanche aegyptiaca Pers.
- Orobanche alba Stephan ex Willd.
- Orobanche alsatica Kirschl.
- Orobanche amethystea Thuill.
- Orobanche amoena C.A.Mey.
- Orobanche anatolica Boiss. & Reut.
- Orobanche androssovii Novopokr.
- Orobanche angustelaciniata Gilli
- Orobanche apuana Domina & Soldano
- Orobanche arenaria Borkh.
- Orobanche arizonica L.T.Collins
- Orobanche armena Tzvelev
- Orobanche arpica Piwow., Ó.Sánchez & Moreno Mor.
- Orobanche artemisiae-campestris Vaucher ex Gaudin
- Orobanche astragali Mouterde
- Orobanche auranitica Mouterde
- Orobanche australiana F.Muell.
- Orobanche australis Moris ex Bertol.
- Orobanche ballii (Maire) Domina
- Orobanche ballotae A.Pujadas
- Orobanche balsensis (J.A.Guim.) Carlón, M.Laínz, Moreno Mor. & Ó.Sánchez
- Orobanche bartlingii Griseb.
- Orobanche baumanniorum Greuter
- Orobanche benkertii Rätzel & Uhlich
- Orobanche boninsimae (Maxim.) Tuyama
- Orobanche borissovae Novopokr.
- Orobanche brachypoda Novopokr.
- Orobanche brassicae (Novopokr.) Novopokr.
- Orobanche bulbosa Beck
- Orobanche bungeana Beck
- Orobanche caesia Rchb.
- Orobanche calendulae Pomel
- Orobanche californica Cham. & Schltdl.
- Orobanche campanulae Rätzel, Ristow & Uhlich
- Orobanche camphorosmae (Carlón, G.Gómez, M.Laínz, Moreno Mor., Ó.Sánchez & Schneew.) A.Pujadas & Triano
- Orobanche camptolepis Boiss. & Reut.
- Orobanche canescens C.Presl
- Orobanche caryophyllacea Sm.
- Orobanche castellana Reut.
- Orobanche cathae Deflers
- Orobanche caucasica Beck
- Orobanche centaurina Bertol.
- Orobanche cernua Loefl.
- Orobanche chilensis (Phil.) Beck
- Orobanche chironii Lojac.
- Orobanche chrysacanthi Maire
- Orobanche cilicica Beck
- Orobanche cistanchoides Beck
- Orobanche clarkei Hook.f.
- Orobanche clausonis Pomel
- Orobanche coelestis (Reut.) Boiss. & Reut. ex Beck
- Orobanche coerulescens Stephan
- Orobanche cohenii Domina & Danin
- Orobanche connata K.Koch
- Orobanche cooperi (A.Gray) A.Heller
- Orobanche corymbosa (Rydb.) Ferris
- Orobanche crenata Forssk.
- Orobanche cumana Wallr.
- Orobanche cypria Reut. ex Kotschy
- Orobanche cyrenaica Beck ex E.A.Durand & Barratte
- Orobanche cyrnea Jeanm., Habashi & Manen
- Orobanche dalmatica (Beck) Tzvelev
- Orobanche daninii Domina & Raimondo
- Orobanche densiflora Salzm. ex Bertol.
- Orobanche denudata Moris
- Orobanche dhofarensis M.J.Y.Foley
- Orobanche ducellieri Maire
- Orobanche dugesii (S.Watson) Munz
- Orobanche ebuli Huter & Rigo
- Orobanche elatior Sutton
- Orobanche eriophora Bornm. & Gauba
- Orobanche esulae Pancic
- Orobanche fasciculata Nutt.
- Orobanche flava Mart. ex F.W.Schultz
- Orobanche foetida Poir.
- Orobanche fuscovinosa Maire
- Orobanche gamosepala Reut.
- Orobanche georgii-reuteri (Carlón, G.Gómez, M.Laínz, Moreno Mor., Ó.Sánchez & Schneew.) A.Pujadas
- Orobanche gigantea (Beck) Gontsch.
- Orobanche glabricaulis Tzvelev
- Orobanche gracilis Sm.
- Orobanche gratiosa (Webb & Berthel.) Linding.
- Orobanche grenieri F.W.Schultz
- Orobanche grisebachii Reut.
- Orobanche grossheimii Novopokr.
- Orobanche gussoneana (Lojac.) ined.
- Orobanche hadroantha Beck
- Orobanche haenseleri Reut.
- Orobanche hansii A.Kern.
- Orobanche hederae Duby
- Orobanche hedypnoidis (Rätzel, Ristow & Uhlich) Hand
- Orobanche heldreichii (Reut.) Beck
- Orobanche hirtiflora (Reut.) Burkill
- Orobanche humbertii Maire
- Orobanche hymenocalyx Reut.
- Orobanche hypertomentosa M.J.Y.Foley
- Orobanche iammonensis A.Pujadas & P.Fraga
- Orobanche iberica (Beck) Tzvelev
- Orobanche inexspectata (Carlón, G.Gómez, M.Laínz, Moreno Mor., Ó.Sánchez & Schneew.) Domina, Greuter, P.Marino & P.Schäf.
- Orobanche ingens (Beck) Tzvelev
- Orobanche inulae Novopokr. & Abramov
- Orobanche javakhetica Piwow., Ó.Sánchez & Moreno Mor.
- Orobanche kashmirica C.B.Clarke ex Hook.f.
- Orobanche kelleri Novopokr.
- Orobanche kotschyi Reut.
- Orobanche krylowii Beck
- Orobanche kurdica Boiss. & Hausskn.
- Orobanche lainzii (Gómez Nav., Roselló, Peris, A.Valdés & Sanchis) Triano & A.Pujadas
- Orobanche laserpitii-sileris Reut. ex Jord.
- Orobanche latisquama (F.W.Schultz) Batt.
- Orobanche lavandulacea Rchb.
- Orobanche laxissima Uhlich & Rätzel
- Orobanche leptantha Pomel
- Orobanche libanotica (Schweinf. ex Boiss.) Dinsm.
- Orobanche litorea Guss.
- Orobanche longibracteata Schiman-Czeika
- Orobanche loscosii Carlón, M.Laínz, Moreno Mor. & Ó.Sánchez
- Orobanche lucorum A.Braun ex F.W.Schultz
- Orobanche ludoviciana Nutt.
- Orobanche lutea Baumg.
- Orobanche lycoctoni Rhiner
- Orobanche megalantha Harry Sm.
- Orobanche minor Sm.
- Orobanche mlokosiewiczii Piwow., Ó.Sánchez & Moreno Mor.
- Orobanche mongolica Beck
- Orobanche montserratii A.Pujadas & D.Gómez
- Orobanche multiflora Nutt.
- Orobanche mupinensis Hu
- Orobanche muteliformis M.J.Y.Foley
- Orobanche mutelii F.W.Schultz
- Orobanche nana Noë ex Rchb.
- Orobanche nowackiana Markgr.
- Orobanche olbiensis (Coss.) Nyman
- Orobanche ombrochares Hance
- Orobanche orientalis Beck
- Orobanche owerinii (Beck) Beck
- Orobanche oxyloba (Reut.) Beck
- Orobanche palaestina Reut.
- Orobanche pancicii Beck
- Orobanche parishii (Jeps.) Heckard
- Orobanche penduliflora Gilli
- Orobanche perangustata M.J.Y.Foley
- Orobanche persica (Beck) Novopokr.
- Orobanche picridis F.W.Schultz
- Orobanche pinorum Geyer ex Hook.
- Orobanche portoilicitana A.Pujadas & M.B.Crespo
- Orobanche psila C.B.Clarke
- Orobanche pubescens d'Urv.
- Orobanche pulchella (C.A.Mey.) Novopokr.
- Orobanche purpurea Jacq.
- Orobanche pycnostachya Hance
- Orobanche ramosa L.
- Orobanche rapum-genistae Thuill.
- Orobanche rechingeri Gilli
- Orobanche resedarum (Carlón, G.Gómez, M.Laínz, Moreno Mor., Ó.Sánchez & Schneew.) A.Pujadas & Triano
- Orobanche reticulata Wallr.
- Orobanche reuteriana (Rchb.f.) M.B.Crespo & A.Pujadas
- Orobanche rigens Loisel.
- Orobanche riparia L.T.Collins
- Orobanche robbinsii Heckard ex Colwell & Yatsk.
- Orobanche rosmarina Welw. ex Beck
- Orobanche salviae F.W.Schultz ex W.D.J.Koch
- Orobanche sanguinea C.Presl
- Orobanche santolinae Loscos & J.Pardo
- Orobanche schelkovnikovii Tzvelev
- Orobanche schultzii Mutel
- Orobanche schweinfurthii Beck
- Orobanche septemloba (Beck) Tzvelev
- Orobanche serbica beck & Petrovic
- Orobanche serratocalyx Beck
- Orobanche sinensis Harry Sm.
- Orobanche singarensis Beck
- Orobanche sintenisii Beck
- Orobanche solenanthi Novopokr. & Pissjauk.
- Orobanche sordida C.A.Mey.
- Orobanche spectabilis Reut.
- Orobanche staehelinae D.Pav., Michaud, Véla & J.-M.Tison
- Orobanche stocksii Boiss.
- Orobanche subbaetica Triano & A.Pujadas
- Orobanche sulphurea Gontsch.
- Orobanche tacnaensis Mattf.
- Orobanche tarapacana Phil.
- Orobanche tetuanensis Ball
- Orobanche teucrii Holandre
- Orobanche transcaucasica Tzvelev
- Orobanche trichocalyx (Webb & Berthel.) Beck
- Orobanche tricholoba (Reut.) Domina
- Orobanche turcica G.Zare & Dönmez
- Orobanche uniflora L.
- Orobanche uralensis Beck
- Orobanche valida Jeps.
- Orobanche vallicola (Jeps.) Heckard
- Orobanche variegata Wallr.
- Orobanche weberbaueri Mattf.
- Orobanche yuennanensis (Beck) Hand.-Mazz.
- Orobanche zajaciorum Piwow.
- Orobanche zosimii (M.J.Y.Foley) Domina
Orobanche L. appears in other Kew resources:
Date | Reference | Identified As | Barcode | Type Status | Has image? |
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16827.000 | No | ||||
Milne-Redhead, E. [12290], Italy | 1806.000 | No | |||
Wood, J.J. [79], Cyprus | 39014.000 | No | |||
Albury [ACW 658], Turkey | 71986.000 | No | |||
Albury [ACW 772], Turkey | 71988.000 | No | |||
Albury [ACW 770], Turkey | 71989.000 | No | |||
Albury [ACW 855], Turkey | 71992.000 | No | |||
Albury [ACW 1046], Turkey | 71415.000 | No | |||
Rico, L. [1794], Armenia | 64739.000 | No |
First published in Sp. Pl.: 632 (1753)
Accepted by
- Powell, A.M. & Worthington, R.D. (2018). Flowering plants of Trans-Pecos Texas and ajacent areas: 1-1444. BRIT Press.
- Tutin, T.G. & al. (eds.) (1972). Flora Europaea 3: 1-370. Cambridge University Press.
Literature
Flora of West Tropical Africa
- —F.T.A. 4, 2: 464.
Flora Zambesiaca
- Benth. & Hook.f., Gen. Pl. 2, 2: 984 (1876).
- Gen. Pl., ed. 5: 281 (1754).
- Sp. Pl.: 632 (1753)
Flora of Somalia
- Flora Somalia, (2000) Author: by M. Thulin [updated by M. Thulin 2008]
Flora of Tropical East Africa
- L., Gen. Pl., ed. 5: 281 (1754)
- Sp. Pl.: 632 (1753)
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Flora Zambesiaca
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Flora of Somalia
Flora of Somalia
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Flora of Tropical East Africa
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Kew Backbone Distributions
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