- Family:
- Orobanchaceae Vent.
- Genus:
- Cistanche Hoffmanns. & Link
Cistanche tubulosa (Schenk) Wight ex Hook.f.

Native to:
Afghanistan, Chad, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gulf States, India, Iran, Iraq, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kuwait, Lebanon-Syria, Libya, Mozambique, Oman, Pakistan, Palestine, Saudi Arabia, Sinai, Socotra, Somalia, Sudan, Tanzania, Turkmenistan, Yemen
- Cistanche carnosa Pax
- Cistanche lutea Wight
- Cistanche tinctoria (Forssk.) Beck
- Cistanche tubulosa f. albiflora Gilli
- Cistanche tubulosa var. albiflora (Gilli) Hadidy
- Cistanche tubulosa subsp. palustris S.Dutta, H.Rodrigues & Chakral
- Cistanche tubulosa var. tomentosa Hook.f.
- Lathraea quinquefida Forssk.
- Orobanche calotropidis Edgew.
- Orobanche insignis E.D.Clarke
- Orobanche tinctoria Forssk.
- Phelypaea calotropidis Walp.
- Phelypaea tubulosa Schenk
Cistanche tubulosa (Schenk) Wight ex Hook.f. appears in other Kew resources:
First published in Fl. Brit. India 4: 324 (1884)
Accepted by
- Boulos, L. (2002). Flora of Egypt 3: 1-373. Al Hadara Publishing, Cairo.
- Brundu, G. & Camarda, I. (2013). The Flora of Chad: a checklist and brief analysis PhytoKeys 23: 1-18.
- Darbyshire, I., Kordofani, M., Farag, I., Candiga, R. & Pickering, H. (eds.) (2015). The Plants of Sudan and South Sudan: 1-400. Kew publishing, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
- Dobignard, A. & Chatelain, C. (2013). Index synonymique de la flore d'Afrique du nord 5: 1-451. Éditions des conservatoire et jardin botaniques, Genève.
- Govaerts, R. (1999). World Checklist of Seed Plants 3(1, 2a & 2b): 1-1532. MIM, Deurne.
- Hedberg, I., Kelbessa, E., Edwards, S., Demissew, S. & Persson, E. (eds.) (2006). Flora of Ethiopia and Eritrea 5: 1-690. The National Herbarium, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia & The Department of Systematic Botany, Upps.
- Meena, S.L. (2012). A checklist of the vascular plants of Banaskantha district, Gujarat, India Nelumbo 54: 39-91.
- Philcox, D. (1990). Flora Zambesiaca 8(2): 1-179. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
- Shaheen, H., Qureshi, R., Akram, A., Gulfraz, M. & Potter, D. (2014). A preliminary floristic checklist of Thal desert Punjab, Pakistan Pakistn Journal of Botany 46: 13-18.
Not accepted by
- Ghazanfar, S.A. (2015). Flora of Oman 3: 1-386. National Botanic Garden of Belgium, Meise. [Cited as Cistanche phelypaea.]
- Moreno Moral, G., Sánchez Pedraja, Ó. & Piwowarczyk, R. (2018). Contributions to the knowledge of Cistanche (Orobanchaceae) in the Western Palearctic Phyton; Annales Rei Botanica 57: 19-36. [Cited as Cistanche tinctoria.]
- Thulin, M. (ed.) (2006). Flora of Somalia 3: 1-626. The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. [Cited as Cistanche phelypaea.]
Literature
Kew Backbone Distributions
- Boulos, L. (2002). Flora of Egypt 3: 1-373. Al Hadara Publishing, Cairo.
- Brundu, G. & Camarda, I. (2013). The Flora of Chad: a checklist and brief analysis PhytoKeys 23: 1-18.
- Collenette, S. (1999). Wildflowers of Saudi Arabia: 1-799. National commission for wildlife conservation and development (NCWCD), Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
- Daoud, H.S. in Al-Rawi, A. (1985). Flora of Kuwait 1: 1-224. Alden Press Ltd., U.K.
- Darbyshire, I., Kordofani, M., Farag, I., Candiga, R. & Pickering, H. (eds.) (2015). The Plants of Sudan and South Sudan: 1-400. Kew publishing, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
- Dobignard, A. & Chatelain, C. (2013). Index synonymique de la flore d'Afrique du nord 5: 1-451. Éditions des conservatoire et jardin botaniques, Genève.
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Herbarium Catalogue Specimens
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