| Orobanche pubescens d Urv. / Heterotypic Synonyms: Orobanche versicolor F.w. Schultz, it is a holoparasite perennial plant, 10-50 cm tall, hairy with crisped glandular whitish hairs, simple, erect with sub curved spike; scales 10-25 mm, oblong to linear-lanccolate. Spikes 4-20 cm long, obtuse; bracts as long as or exceeding the corolla, lanccolate, acuminate. Calyx segments almost free or connate below, unequal 8-16 mm long, with linear-lanccolate to filiform teeth, at least twice as long as the connote basal portion. Corolla 10-20 mm long, villous, pale yellow, tinged with violet above, erect, ± sub curved, tubular with short lobes. Stamens inserted.3-4 mm above the- base of corolla, hairy below, glabrous above; anthers glabrous, Stigma violed. Capsules 8-10 mm long. Life Form: Pa, Flowering in: Mar-May, Vern: Enum, Phytochoria: MED, The native range of this species is Central & E. Medit. to Caucasus. Notes: Wild in Libya.
For more information: https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:662622-1, https://www.ipni.org/n/662622-1, https://www.worldfloraonline.org/taxon/wfo-0000387556, https://www.gbif.org/species/7332328, https://africanplantdatabase.ch/en/nomen/specie/149510/orobanche-pubescens-d-urv, http://www.maltawildflowers.marz-kreations.com/ORBN/Orobanche_pubescens.php, https://www.plantarium.ru/lang/en/page/view/item/25959.html, https://www.preservons-la-nature.fr/flore/taxon/3108.html |
| Distribution in Libya | |
| Benghazi Plain | Al-Jabal Al-Akhder |
| Wadi El-Ghattara 2010 | W. Derna, Wadi Derna 1887 Lamluda, Ciren, U. Buten 1933 Gubba 1938 Al-Bakur, near Tocra 1968 Al-Jabal Al-Akhdar 2021 |
| Bibliographic references: | |
| First: Encyclopedia Flora of Libyan: | |
| Jafri, S.M.H. & El-Gadi, A. (1978 Flora of Libya, Orobanchaceae Vol. (55) Department of Botany, Al-Faateh Univ., Tripoli, Libya. | |
| Second: Researches and PhD theses, master theses, Sorted by Newest: | pdf files |
| El-Mokasabi, F. M., Askar, A. M., Hassan, S. A. Al-Darawi, M., Al-Bakoush, A. M. (2021) Preliminary survey of the parasitic plants on wild plants in the Al-Jabal Al-Akhdar region. A special issue of the Fifth Annual Conference on Theories and Applications of Basic and Life Sciences. (4) September 2021. Faculty f Science-University of Misurata. (In Arabic) https://www.misuratau.edu.ly/journal/sci/paperS.php?id=1642&ed_id=305 | |
| El-Rabiai, G.T., Al tira, F.M., Lamlom, S.H. (2010) Preliminary Checklist for the Flora of Wadi El Ghattara in Libya. Garyounis University Press Journal of Science and Its Applications Vol. 4, No. 1, pp 39-47, December 2010. http://sc.uob.edu.ly/assets/uploads/pagedownloads/5c3e5-39-47.pdf |
