OROBANCHE GRISEBACHII

Family and Genus:- See- OROBANCHACEAE/Sect. OROBANCHE/O. MINOR

Group

Common Names:- None

Homotypic Synonyms:- Orobanche minor var. grisebachii, Orobanche minor

subsp. grisebachii.

Meaning:- Orobanche (Gr) Legume-strangler. (one species is parasitic on

legumes).

Grisebachii (L) For Heinrich Rudilf August Grisebach (1814-79)

Professor of Botany at Gottingen.

Stems:-

1) 20-50 cm. swollen at the base. yellowish-white, densely glandular-puberulent and

somewhat tomentose.

Leaves:-

1) Oblong-lanceolate, glandular-pubescent.

Flowers:-

1) Inflorescence, 5-25 cm, cylindrical, usually dense, many-flowered.

2) Bracts, 10-22 mm,. oblong, acuminate, equalling or exceeding the flower.

3) Calyx segments, entire or deeply and unequally bidentate.

4) Corolla, 12-15(-20) mm, tubular, whitish to yellowish, glandular-pubescent.

a) upper lip, entire or plicate-emarginate.

b) lower lip, lobes rounded or subacute, with crenulate-dentate margin, glabrous.

5) Stamens, inserted 3-4 mm above the base of the corolla tube, long-pilose in the

lower half.

a) anthers broadly ovate.

b) filaments inserted 3-4 mm above the base of corolla.

6) Stigma violet or purplish, rarely white.

Key features:-

1) Bracts, 10-22 mm.

2) Stamens, inserted 3-5 mm above the base of the corolla tube.

3) Corolla, 12-15(-20) mm, tube, glandular-pubescent glabrous distally.

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Host genera:- Members of Compositae, Leguminosae and Campanulaceae.

Habitat:- Dry open shrubby vegetation, fallow fields and open woodland, 0-1 000 m,

Distribution:- On Greek territory almost restricted to the Aegean area. -

Widespread in Anatolia, extending to Palestine and Egypt. Sparsely scattered

across Crete,. Rare

Flowering time:- April-June

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