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Striga asiatica

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Name

Identification
Striga asiatica (L.)Kuntze [family SCROPHULARIACEAE ]
Related name
  • Striga asiatica
Common name
  • ode doona (Boston) (NIGERIA, IGALA), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 5
  • bin ségé (JB) (SENEGAL, MANDING-BAMBARA), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 5

Flora

Entry for STRIGA asiatica (L.) Kuntze [family SCROPHULARIACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Somalia
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Somalia, Vol 3, (2006) Author: by P. Cuccuini & C. Nepi (Alectra, Anticharis, Aptosimum, Scrophularia), E. Fischer (Bacopa, Craterostigma, Lindernia, Pseudosopubia, Rhabdotosperma, Stemodiopsis, Verbascum), Ghebrehiwet Medhanie (Nanorrhinum), M. Hjertson (Campylanthus, Lindenbergia), K.I. Mohamed & L.J. Musselman (Striga), M. Thulin (Camptoloma, Chaenorhinum, Cycnium, Ghikaea, Harveya, Misopates, Schweinfurthia, Veronica, Xylocalyx) [updated by M. Thulin 2008]
Names
STRIGA asiatica (L.) Kuntze [family SCROPHULARIACEAE], (1891);
Buchnera asiatica L. [family SCROPHULARIACEAE], (1753). Fig. 196A, B. [type as above]
Information
Annual, up to 40 cm tall, usually branched from middle, hispid; stem obtusely square. Leaves 10–50 x 0.5–3 mm, opposite, linear or narrowly-elliptic, margin entire, veins obscure. Lower bracts 6–35(–50) x 1–3 mm, leaf-like, upper bracts lanceolate, shorter or longer than calyx. Flowers alternate in lax racemes, raceme longer than vegetative stem. Calyx 10-ribbed, 4–9 mm long; tube 2–7 mm long; lobes 5, equal, or 6–8, unequal, narrowly lanceolate. Corolla red with yellow throat, occasionally yellow; tube 8–14 mm long, bent and expanded distally above calyx, sparsely to densely pubescent; lobes of lower lip 2–5 x 1–3 mm, obovate, spreading; upper lip 1–3 x 2–4(–7) mm, emarginate.
Range
S3 widespread in tropical and southern Africa and Madagascar, and in Asia, introduced elsewhere.
Altitude range
30–50 m.
Distribution
SOMALIA Gillett & al. 25045; Senni 309; Moggi, Tardelli & Bavazzano 413.
Notes
S. asiatica is known to attack crops such as sorghum and maize, especially in Madagascar and southern Africa. Plants recognized as S. hirsuta Benth. in Mohamed & al. (2001) are provisonally included here as S. hirsuta is an illegitimate name and the taxonomy is in need of further study.

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