Pilostyles haussknechtii Boissier, Arch. Sci. Phys. Nat. 25: 255-261. 1866.

Bellot, Sidonie & Renner, Susanne S., 2014, The systematics of the worldwide endoparasite family Apodanthaceae (Cucurbitales), with a key, a map, and color photos of most species, PhytoKeys 36, pp. 41-57 : 50

6. Pilostyles haussknechtii Boissier, Arch. Sci. Phys. Nat. 25: 255-261. 1866.

Type.

Middle East, parasitic on Astragalus , J. E. Haussknecht s.n (G-BOISS, not seen).

Note: Tepals pink to brown in 2 whorls, each with 6 to 10 tepals (Fig. 6G). Found at the basis of young branches of Astragalus and occasionally Onobrychis and Halimodendron in Iran ( Figs 2 , 3 ).

Figures

Figure 2. Geographic distribution of Apodanthaceae based on label information from 785 herbarium collections.

Figure 3. Phylogenetic relationships among the hosts of Apodanthaceae (legume relationships from Wojciechowski et al. 2006) and among the species of Apodanthaceae (from Bellot and Renner in review). Identical colors link parasite species and their host (s) and are also used in Figure 2. Dashed lines represent associations with rarely reported hosts; hosts in bold are the most common ones.