Compilation
Melasma orobanchoides

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