- Family:
- Orobanchaceae Vent.
- Genus:
- Cistanche Hoffmanns. & Link
Cistanche violacea (Desf.) Hoffmanns. & Link

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:
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.
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Herbarium Catalogue Specimens
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Kew Backbone Distributions
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