Family:
Orobanchaceae Vent.
Genus:
Cistanche Hoffmanns. & Link

Cistanche violacea (Desf.) Hoffmanns. & Link

This species is accepted, and its native range is Mauritania to Syria and Arabian Peninsula.

Native to:

Algeria, Chad, Lebanon-Syria, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Palestine, Saudi Arabia, Sinai, Tunisia, Western Sahara

Cistanche violacea (Desf.) Hoffmanns. & Link appears in other Kew resources:

Date Reference Identified As Barcode Type Status
Dent, R.V. [24], Algeria 29047.139
Sandwith, N.Y., Libya 3927.000

First published in Fl. Portug. 1: 320 (1813)

Accepted by

  • Barry, J. P. & Celles, J.S. (1991). Flore de Mauritanie 1: 1-359. Centre Regional de Documentation Pedagogique, Nice.
  • Boulos, L. (2002). Flora of Egypt 3: 1-373. Al Hadara Publishing, Cairo.
  • Collenette, S. (1999). Wildflowers of Saudi Arabia: 1-799. National commission for wildlife conservation and development (NCWCD), Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
  • Dobignard, A. & Chatelain, C. (2013). Index synonymique de la flore d'Afrique du nord 5: 1-451. Éditions des conservatoire et jardin botaniques, Genève.
  • Dobignard, A., Jacquemoud, F. & Jordan, D. (1992). Matériaux pour la conaissance floristique du Sahara occidental et l'Anti-Atlas méridional. II. Leguminosae à Compositae Candollea 47: 397-481.
  • Govaerts, R. (1999). World Checklist of Seed Plants 3(1, 2a & 2b): 1-1532. MIM, Deurne.
  • 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.
  • Thorogood, C. (2021). Personal communication on Orobanchaceae. 1 The University of Oxford Botanic Garden and Arboretum.

Literature

Kew Backbone Distributions

  • Dobignard, A., Jacquemoud, F. & Jordan, D. (1992). Matériaux pour la conaissance floristique du Sahara occidental et l'Anti-Atlas méridional. II. Leguminosae à Compositae Candollea 47: 397-481.
  • Thorogood, C. (2021). Personal communication on Orobanchaceae. 1 The University of Oxford Botanic Garden and Arboretum.

  • Herbarium Catalogue Specimens

  • Kew Backbone Distributions

    The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families 2022. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/
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  • Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone

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