Orobanche caryophyllacea, Sm.

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 : 292

31. O. caryophyllacea Sm. , Trans. Linn. Soc. London 4: 169 (1798)

( O. vulgaris Poiret ).

Stems 15-50 x 04-0- 8 cm, slightly swollen at base, glandular-hairy, yellowish or purplish. Leaves 15-30 mm, narrowly triangular-lanceolate, acute. Spike 6-20 (-30) x 2-5-4' 5 cm, usually lax, glandular-pubescent to villous; bracts 17-25 mm, lanceolate; flowers fragrant. Calyx 10-17 mm; segments free, or sometimes connate in lower half, entire to bifid. Corolla 20-32 mm, glandular-pubescent, pink or pale yellow, variously tinged with dull purple, erecto-patent, narrowly campanulate, uniformly curved; upper bp emarginate; lower bp with subequal, glandular-cibate lobes. Filaments hairy, inserted 1 -3(-5) mm above base of corolla; anthers glabrous. Stigma purple. Capsule 9-12 mm. 2« = 38. On Rubiaceae . W., C. & S. Europe. Al Au Be Br Bu Cz Ga Ge Gr He Ho Hs Hu It Ju No Po Rm Rs (C, W, K, E) Si.