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Striga gesnerioides (Willd.) Vatke [family SCROPHULARIACEAE]

Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of West Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of West Tropical Africa, Vol 2,
Names
Striga gesnerioides (Willd.) Vatke [family SCROPHULARIACEAE], in Oest. Bot. Zeitschr. 25: 11 (1875).
Buchnera gesnerioides Willd. [family SCROPHULARIACEAE], (1801)
Striga orobanchoides Benth. [family SCROPHULARIACEAE], (1836)-F.T.A4, 2: 402; ChevBot477
Information
Stiff erect perennial herb with usually rather stout stems a few inches to 1 ft. or more high; flowers pink or purple or creamy white; in waste places and cultivated land; drying black.
Habitat
; in waste places and cultivated land
Range
Also in Cape Verde Islands, throughout tropical and S. Africa and through Arabia to India
Distribution
Maur.: Dendari to Bou Zériba (Oct.) Monod 4007!Sen.: Sieber 52! Heudelot 540! Leprieur 6! Farmar 131!Gam.: Kuntaur Ruxton 53!Mali: Ségou (Sept.) Chev. 3280!S. L.: Buyabuya, Scarcies (fl. & fr. Feb.) Sc. Elliot 4279!Ghana: Zuarungu (fl. & fr. Sept.) Thorold 210! Manga (fl. 8 fr. Sept.) Thorold 248!Togo Rep.: Lomé Warnecke 189!Dah.: Cotonou (Nov.) Le Testu 229!Niger: Niamey (fl. & fr. Oct.) Hagerup 479!N. Nig.: Sokoto (fl. & fr. Aug., Nov.) Dalz. 357! Moiser 63! Naraguta (fl. 8 fr. Aug.) Lely 489! Kilba Hills and Yola (fl. 8 fr. Aug.) Dalz. 300!S. Nig.: Addarundu T. Vogel! Ado Rock, Oyo (fl. 8 fr. Oct.) Keay 8 Savory FHI 25446!
Striga gesnerioides (Willd.) Vatke [family SCROPHULARIACEAE]
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