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Orobanche L.

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Orobanche L., Sp. Pl. 632-633 (1753)
Orobanche L.

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Exotic
Wild
New Zealand
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L.
L.
1753
632-633
ICN
Orobanche L.
genus
Orobanche

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Orobanche

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Orobanche L.

Annual or perennial herbs with short underground root tubers or tuber-like rhizomes attached to roots of host plants. Stems simple or branched, often stout, with numerous scale lvs. Fls in dense spikes or racemes. Calyx either irregularly 4-(5)-toothed or laterally 2-lipped with usually 2 entire or 2-fid segments, sometimes with a fifth posterior tooth. Corolla strongly 2-lipped; tube curved; upper lip ± 2-lobed; lower lip 3-lobed, at least as long as upper. Stamens included. Ovary with 4 placentae, variously lobed. Stigma lobes fleshy. Valves of capsule sometimes remaining attached apically. Seeds minute, very numerous.

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Orobanche L.
Nepal
Orobanche L.
New Zealand
South Auckland Land District
Orobanche L.
Norway

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b9632ed3-04dd-49a2-8b59-153333165026
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Names_Plants
1 January 2000
14 February 2014
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