Orobanche pubescens d'Urv. (Οροβάγχη - Λύκος)

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Orobanche pubescens d'Urv.

Stem 10–60 cm tall, swollen at base, densely glandular-pubescent and soft-pilose throughout. Leaves oblong, erecto-patent, long-hairy like stem and bracts. Inflorescence cylindrical, usually many-flowered. Bracts lanceolate, equalling or exceeding flower. Calyx segments entire to unequally bidentate; teeth narrow, often filiform towards apex, ± equalling corolla tube. Corolla 10–15(–20) mm, tubular, slightly curved, ± straight in the middle part, yellowish to violet-brown, sometimes uniformly yellowish-white (f. homochroma Beck), villous to arachnoid especially outside on upper lip. Upper lip usually entire or plicate-emarginate. Lobes of lower lip plicate, crenate or denticulate, glabrous at margin. Stamens inserted 3–4 mm above base of corolla tube, villous in lower half. Stigma lilac, violet or bluish. On a wide variety of host plants (Crithmum, Cynara, Glebionis, Hymenocarpos, Malabaila, Melissa, Orlaya, Otanthus, Pseudorlaya, Scandix, Sedum, Smyrnium, Symphytum and Trifolium have been reported in Greece).

Σύνηθες παράσιτο σε Glebionis coronaria. Περισσότερες πληροφορίες στα Χλωρίδα μας, Φυτολόγιο, greekflora.gr, Flora of Greece web.

Orobanche pubescens

Orobanche pubescens

Orobanche pubescens