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Orobanche aegyptiaca Pers. (1806)
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Parasitic on Citrullus lanatus (Thunberg) Matsumura & Nakai, Cucumis melo Linnaeus, C. sativa Linnaeus, and Lycopersicon esculentum Miller.
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Nile and Mediterranean regions.
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Egypt, southwest Asia to Crimea, Caucasus, Transcaspia, Himalayas.
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Xinjiang [Afghanistan, Bangladesh, India, Kashmir, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Nepal, Pakistan, S Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan; N Africa, SW Asia].
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Distribution: N. Africa, Arabia, Mediterranean region to Pakistan and Himalayas.
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Mediterranean, N. Africa, Arabia to Pakistan and Himalaya.
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Annual, usually glandular-pubescent, (10-)20-50 cm tall, often regularly and branched from below with elongated branches. Scales distant, 5-15 mm long, lanceolate, thickish, pubescent to glabrescent. Spikes lax, with lower flowers distant and subsessile, up to 25 cm long, hardly or not tapering above. Bracts lanceolate to ovate-oblong, hardly reaching the size of calyx, ± similar to scales. Bracteoles linear, shorter than calyx. Calyx 8-14 mm long, campanulate, more dissected dorsally, 4(-5)-toothed, with teeth ± as long as the tube, pubescent. Corolla usually 20-35 mm long, pubescent out-side, infundibuliform, ± whitish below and blue or lilac above; tube slightly curved and broader above, constricted below the middle and at the insertion point of stamens; upper lip short, 2-lobed, erect; lower lip ± equally 3-lobed with rounded or subrounded lobes; margins very minutely denticulate to almost entire. Staminal filaments ± pubescent at base; anthers cells woolly along the sutures. Stigma with 2, semiorbicular lobes. Capsule c. 10 mm long, oblong to subspheroid, acuminate, glabrous; seeds c. 0.7 mm long, subglobose to broadly ovoid, reticulate.
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150-3100 m
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Herbs annual, 15-50 cm tall, glandular pubescent. Stems branched above middle. Leaves ovate-lanceolate, 8-10 X 2-4 mm, along with bracts, bractlets, calyx, and corolla densely glandular pubescent abaxially. Inflorescences spicate, 8-15 cm; bract ovate-lanceolate or lanceolate, 6-10 X 3-4 mm; bractlets linear, 6-10 mm. Flowers subsessile or short pedicelled. Calyx campanulate, 1-1.4 cm, 4- or 5-lobed to middle; lobes linear-lanceolate, 4-7 mm. Corolla blue-purple, 2-3.5 cm, suberect; tube ca. 2 cm; upper lip 2-lobed; lower lip longer than upper; lobes entire, white villous at margin. Pistil 2.2-2.6 cm; ovary ellipsoid. Style 1.8-2 cm, glandular pubescent; stigma 2-lobed, lobes semirounded. Capsule oblong, 0.8-1.2 cm X ca. 6 mm. Seeds long ovoid, 0.4-0.6 X ca. 0.2 mm. Fl. Apr-Jun, fr. Jun-Aug. 2n = 24.
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Orobanche indica Buchanan-Hamilton ex Roxburgh; Phelipaea aegyptiaca (Persoon) Walpers; P. indica (Buchanan-Hamilton ex Roxburgh) G. Don; Phelipanche aegyptiaca (Persoon) Pomel.
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