Cistanche tinctoria
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Photo: Ton Rulkens
Chocas, Mossuril district, Nampula province
Photo: Ton Rulkens
Chocas, Mossuril district, Nampula province
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| Synonyms: |
Cistanche carnosa Pax Cistanche tubulosa (Schenk) Hook. f. Orobanche tinctoria Forssk. Phelipaea tinctoria (Forssk.) Brot. Phelipaea tubulosa Schenk |
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| Frequency: | Very local |
| Status: | Native |
| Description: |
Root-parastite with an erect fleshy stem, 10–20 cm tall, swollen at base, yellow-brown to mauve-purple, hairless. Scales broadly ovate-lanceolate, up to 15 mm long, hairless, mostly concentrated towards the base. Inflorescence up to 10 cm long and upto 8 cm wide; bracts purplish, scale-like. Bracteoles subobovate to subspathulate, up to 14 mm, long. Calyx 1.6–1.8 mm long, with shalllow rounded lobes, slightly overlapping at base. Corolla cream-coloured, 4–5 cm long, erect at first, later curving outwards; lobes entire, broadly rounded. |
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| Notes: | In Mozambique only known from a few records on the coast from the Mossuril District. |
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| Habitat: | Often in saline areas in coastal vegetation or in dry stony areas. |
| Altitude range: (metres) | 0 - 15 m |
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| Worldwide distribution: | Known from Senegal, Mediterranean North Africa and East towards India; Ethiopia, Socotra, Somalia, Kenya, Tanzania and northern Mozambique. |
| FZ divisions: | N |
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| Spot characters: | Display spot characters for this species |
| Images last updated: | Saturday 28 December 2019 |
| Literature: |
Philcox, D. (1990). Scrophulariaceae Flora Zambesiaca 8(2) Pages 158 - 159. (Includes a picture). |
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