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Alectra orobanchoides

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Identification
Alectra orobanchoides Benth. [family SCROPHULARIACEAE ] (stored under name); Isotype of Alectra atrosanguinea Hemsl. [family SCROPHULARIACEAE ]
Related name
  • Glossostylis parasitica
  • Alectra orobanchoides
  • Alectra pumila
  • Alectra parvifolia
  • Celsia parvifolia
  • Orobanche parviflora
  • Melasma welwitschii
  • Alectra unrecorded
  • Alectra welwitschii
  • Alectra kirkii
  • Alectra atrosanguinea
  • Melasma orobanchoides
  • Orobanche unrecorded
  • Harveya parviflora
  • Alectra kilimandjarica
  • Alectra parasitica

Flora

Entry for MELASMA orobanchoides Engl. [family SCROPHULARIACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, Vol 4, page 121, (1904) Author: By W. P. HIERN, F.R.S.
Names
MELASMA orobanchoides Engl. [family SCROPHULARIACEAE], Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 359
Orobanche parviflora E. Meyer ex Drège [family SCROPHULARIACEAE], Cat. Pl. Exsicc. Afr. Austr. 4, and Zwei Pflanzengeogr. Documente, 159, 205.
Alectra orobanchoides Benth. [family SCROPHULARIACEAE], in DC. Prodr. x. 340.
Nigrina orobanchodes O. Kuntze [family SCROPHULARIACEAE], Rev. Gen. Pl. iii. ii. 237.
Alectra pumila Benth. [family SCROPHULARIACEAE], l.c.
Harveya parviflora Steud. [family SCROPHULARIACEAE], Nomencl. Bot. ed. ii. i. 723; Reut. in DC. Prodr. xi. 38.
MELASMA parviflorum K. Schum. [family SCROPHULARIACEAE], in Just, Bot. Jahresber. xxvi. i. 394.
Microsyphus parviflorus Presl [family ], Bot. Bemerk. 91.
Glossostylis parasitica Hochst. [family ], in Pl. Schimp. Abyss. iii. 1464.
Alectra parasitica A. Rich. [family SCROPHULARIACEAE], Tent. Fl. Abyss. ii. 117.
Striga orobanchoides [family SCROPHULARIACEAE], Ind. Kew. ii. 234, not of Benth.
Information
a puberulous herb, erect or ascending, more or less branched from the base upwards or rarely simple, annual, parasitical, dusky when dry, 2–24 in. high; stems and branches angular, smooth or scabrid; leaves scale-like, opposite, subopposite, alternate or scattered, oval or elliptic, or the upper sublanceolate, mostly obtuse, not much narrowed at the sessile base, scabrid-puberulous, 1/8– 3/5 in. long, 1/15– 1/6 in. broad, entire or occasionally sparingly toothed, mostly shorter than the internodes; flowers spicate and in the axils of the upper leaves, numerous, orange-yellow, very shortly pedicellate, 1/4– 3/8 in. long; bracteoles narrow, puberulous, 1/8– 1/6 in. long; calyx loosely campanulate, shortly pubescent outside, glabrous inside, 5-cleft, 1/6– 1/4 in. long in flower or rather more in fruit; lobes deltoid or triangular-ovate, 1/12– 1/8 in. long, not acuminate; corolla veined, orange-red or deep or dull yellow, slightly marbled with brown; stamens 4, subequal, nearly glabrous or pilose; anther-cells more or less pointed but not tailed at the lower end; capsules subglobose, glabrous, 1/6– 1/5 in. in diam. null
Distribution
CENTRAL REGION Somerset Div.; Bowker, 120! Graaff Reinet Div.; near Graaff Reinet, 2600–2800 ft., Burchell, 2927! Bowker! parasitic on roots of Rhus, Bolus, 406! Aliwal North Div.: Aliwal North, Kuntze.EASTERN REGION , ascending to 3000 ft.: Natal; near Durban, Gueinzius, 381! 442! MacKen, 9! Sanderson! Drège! Zululand, Gerrard, 1841! Inanda, Wood, 1240! near Umlaas Drift, Wood! near Verulam, Wood, 1588! bank of Tugela River near Colenso, Wood, 4412! near Weenen, Wood, 928!KALAHARI REGION , between 2500 and 4500 ft.: Orange River Colony; Sand River, Burke, 238! Thaba Unchu, Burke, 414! near Bethulie, Flanagan, 1488! Bechuanaland; near the springs at Mafeking, Bolus, 6468! Transvaal; Aapies Poort, Rehmann, 4117! Pretoria, Kuntze; Rimers Creek, near Barberton, Galpin, 847! near Moord Drift, Schlechter, 4314! near Lydenburg, Wilms, 1089!

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