| Orobanche ramosa L., it is a holoparasitic annual plant, stems usually small, thin, often much branched, 5-30 cm tall, swollen at base, glandular-pubescent. Scales ovate to ovate-lanceolate, 3-10 mm long, acute. Spikes (2-) 5-20 (-25) cm long; bracts 6-8 (-10) mm, ovate-lanceolate; bracteoles about equaling the calyx, linear-lanceolate. Calyx 6-8 mm long with triangular teeth, shorter than tube. Corolla up to 15 (7) mm long, glandular-pubescent, sub erect or almost straight, ± inflated at base, tubular-infundibuliform above, whitish at base, white-cream, pale blue or violacecus above; lobes short, rounded, denticulate to almost entire. Filaments glabrous, or hairy at the base, inserted a little below the middle of the corolla; anthers glabrous. Capsules c. 6 mm long. Life Form: Pa, Flowering in: Feb-Mar, Vern: ————-, Phytochoria: Pal , The native range of this species is Macaronesia, W. & Central Medit. to NE. Tropical Africa. Notes: Wild in Libya.
For more information: https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:662640-1, https://www.ipni.org/n/662640-1, https://www.worldfloraonline.org/taxon/wfo-0000387703, https://www.gbif.org/species/3173272, https://africanplantdatabase.ch/en/nomen/specie/149513/orobanche-ramosa-l, https://biodiversitycyprus.blogspot.com/2016/02/orobanche-ramosa-l-cyprus.html, https://www.florealpes.com/fiche_orobanchemutelli.php |
| Distribution in Libya | ||
| Al-Jafarah Plain | Zliten-Misurata Plain | Sirte Plains |
| (12 km) W. of Tripoli near sea shore 1967 Tripoli 1968, 1970 | Misurata 2008 Leptus Magna 2017 | Wadi Soofejeen 2017 |
| Al-Jabal Al-Akhder | ||
| 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 | النباتات المتطفلة على النباتات البرية بمنطقة الجبل الاخضر 2021 |
| Bahri, N.M. (2017) Identify, Limit and Determine the Vegetation Types of Wadi Ka’am Areas, Libya. Journal of Marine Sciences and Environmental Technologies-Volume (3) -Issue (2) (In Arabic) http://www.asmarya.edu.ly/journal2/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/JMSET06-3-1-20171.pdf | وادي كعام ومناطق اخري 2017 |
| Baayo, Kh. A. (2008): Floristic composition and Phytochorological Analysis of Misratah area, Libya, Assiut Univ.J. of Botany 37(2), P-P. 33-78 (2008) |
