| Orobanche crenata Forssk., it is a holoparasitic annual or perennial a robust plant, up 10 50 (-80) cm tall, sparsely villous, yellowish, spikes longer, up to 20 (-50) x 4 cm, dense above and often lax below, bracts 15-25 mm long, linear to ovate-lanceolate, long-acuminate. Flowers fragrant, white, with often lilac-veined lips, 20-30 mm long. Calyx 10-20 mm long, segments free, each ± bi dentate. Corolla campanulate. Straight or slightly curved: lips divergent, the lower with large sub orbicular lobes. Filaments hairy, inserted, 2-4 mm above base of corolla, anthers glabrous. Stigma white, yellow or pinkish. Capsule 10-12 mm Life Form: Pa, Flowering in: Apr-Jun, Vern: Zanon, Phytochoria: MED+IT, The native range of this species is Macaronesia, Medit. to N. Iran. Notes: Wild in Libya.
For more information: https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:662275-1, https://www.ipni.org/n/662275-1, https://www.worldfloraonline.org/taxon/wfo-0000388477, https://www.gbif.org/species/3173273, https://africanplantdatabase.ch/en/nomen/specie/149459/orobanche-crenata-forssk, https://www.preservons-la-nature.fr/flore/taxon/3100.html, https://www.florealpes.com/fiche_orobanchecrenata.php, https://www.cabidigitallibrary.org/doi/10.1079/cabicompendium.37744, http://www.flowersinisrael.com/Orobanchecrenata_page.htm |
| Distribution in Libya | |
| Al-Jafarah Plain | Al-Jabal Al-Akhder |
| Reported from Tripoli by Durand & Barratte | Derna 1912 Martuba a sud di Barce U. el-Bgar 1933 Derna, U. en Naga 1934 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 |
