Orobanche aegyptiaca, Pers.

Tutin, T. G., Heywood, V. H., Burges, N. A., Moore, D. M., Valentine, D. H., Walters, S. M. & Webb, D. A., 1972, Flora Europaea. Volume 3. Diapensiacea to Myoporaceae, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press : 288

2. O. aegyptiaca Pers. , Syn. Pl. 2: 181 (1806)

( Phelypaea aegyptiaca (Pers.) Walpers ).

Like 1 but stems 15-50x0-4-0-6 cm, usually branched; leaves 5-12 mm; lower pedicels usually 10-20 mm; corolla 20-35 mm, straight or slightly curved, conspicuously infundibuliform in distal part; filaments usually hairy at base and sometimes above; anthers villous. 2« = 24. On Gossypium spp., Solanum spp. and other cultivated plants. S.E. Europe; once recorded from Sicilia. Bu Rs (K, E)?Si Tu. (C. & S. W. Asia, Egypt.)

O. coelestis (Reuter) Boiss. & Reuter ex G. Beck , Bibtioth. Bot. (Stuttgart) 19: 114 (1890) is doubtfully distinct from 2; it appears to differ only in its stout, usually simple stem, corolla not more than 26 mm, and anthers sometimes glabrous. It occurs in S.W. Asia and N. Africa, and has once been recorded from the S. Aegean region (Kasos, near Karpathos).