| Cistanche tubulosa (Schenk) Wight ex Hook.f., it is a holoparasitic perennial, robust plant, up to 150 cm tall, glabrous to puberulous, with base up to 5 cm broad; scales (10-) 20-30 (-40) x (7-) 10-15 (-20) mm, triangular to broadly linear, acute. Bract slightly exceeding the calyx; bracteoles shorter than calyx. Calyx 14-18 mm long, including lobes c. 1/3 as long as the tube; lobes rounded at apex. Corolla 30-50 x 15.20 mm at the mouth, much narrower and tubular below, usually yellowish with purplish-violaceous lobes, rarely white; lobes short, sub rounded, entire, reflexed. Staminal filaments woolly at base; anthers densely hairy, rounded or obtuse at ends. Capsules 20-25 mm long, ovoid-oblong, many seeded, beaked. Seeds c. 1 mm long, pitted, dark coloured. Life Form: Pa, Flowering in: Mar-Apr, Vern: Danon, Phytochoria: SA+SZ+IT, The native range of this species is Libya to NW. India. Notes: Wild in Libya, parasiting on roots
For more information: https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:661974-1, https://www.ipni.org/n/661974-1, https://www.worldfloraonline.org/taxon/wfo-0000607120, https://www.gbif.org/species/7332217, https://www.plantarium.ru/lang/en/page/view/item/46624.html |
| Distribution in Libya |
| Ghat area |
| Wadi Tanezzuft-nella zona 1934 |
| 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 |
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