Orobanche lavandulacea
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Orobanche lavandulacea Rchb. (Syn .: Phelipanche lavendulacea (Rchb.) Pomel ) is a plant species from the genus of the summer root ( Orobanche ) in the family of the summer root family (Orobanchaceae).
description
Orobanche lavandulacea is a parasitic living plant, the stems of which are 15 to 60 cm high and 0.4 to 0.7 cm wide. At the base they are swollen, they can be simple or branched and have glandular hairs. The leaves are 7 to 12 mm long, ovate-lanceolate and pointed.
The inflorescences are (rarely only 6 to) 12 to 30 cm high, loose or dense and covered with glandular hair. The bracts are 7 to 10 (rarely up to 12) mm long and ovate-lanceolate, the prophylls are linear-lanceolate and slightly shorter than the calyx . This is 6 to 8 mm long, mostly colored blue and covered with calyx teeth, which are slightly shorter than the calyx tube and are triangular with an awl-shaped tip. The crown is 16 to 22 mm long, covered with glandular hair, almost upright at the base, protruding to the front and narrowly bell-shaped with lips clearly diverging on the outside. It is colored blue at the base and bright blue at the tips. The lobes of the lower lip are nearly circular and serrated. The stamens are hairless or sparsely haired and set about 6 mm above the crown base. The anthers are hairy. The scar is white or yellowish.
The fruit is a capsule with a length of 6 to 7 mm.
Occurrence and locations
The species is common in the Mediterranean region. It parasitizes on a large number of herbaceous plants, but mostly on asphalt clover ( Psoralea bituminosa ). Its distribution area includes Spain, France, Italy, Croatia, Greece, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia. Libya, Egypt, Turkey, Cyprus, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Israel and the Canary Islands.
literature
- Thomas Gaskell Tutin et al. (Ed.): Flora Europaea, Volume 3: Diapensiaceae to Myoporaceae . Cambridge University Press, 1972. ISBN 978-0521084895 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Phelipanche in the Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN), USDA , ARS , National Genetic Resources Program. National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland. Retrieved January 27, 2018.
