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Orobanche
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Orobanche, commonly known as broomrape, is a genus of almost 200 species of small parasitic herbaceous plants, mostly native to the temperate Northern Hemisphere. It is the type genus of the broomrape family Orobanchaceae. It is a weed on broadleaf crop plants in Australia, where some states enforce mandatory destruction and reporting, as well as prohibition of sale.
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Orobanche is a genus of plants within the family Orobanchaceae. It belongs to the order Lamiales, class Magnoliopsida, and phylum Tracheophyta in the kingdom Plantae. The taxon is recognized as accepted at the genus rank.
Records for this genus are held by institutions including CIIDIR-IPN, CAS, NHA, SFSU, and OSU. These records originate from Mexico, the United States, Ukraine, Russia, and Peru. A total of 1,024 records and 777 media items are associated with these collections. Additionally, 307,305 occurrences have been documented, and 553 related publications exist in the PubMed database.
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Species
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Orobanche
GENUS
- KingdomPlantae
- PhylumTracheophyta
- ClassMagnoliopsida
- OrderLamiales
- FamilyOrobanchaceae
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 1,024
- With media
- 777
- Family
- Orobanchaceae
- Collections
- CIIDIR-IPN, CAS, NHA, SFSU, OSU, UCSB
- Recorded in
- Mexico, United States, Ukraine, Russia, Peru, Italy, Tanzania
Research
553 papers- The genus Orobanche as food and medicine: An ethnopharmacological review.Journal of ethnopharmacology · 2020
- [Pharmacophylogenetic study of genus Orobanche, Cistanche and Boschniakia].Zhongguo Zhong yao za zhi = Zhongguo zhongyao zazhi = China journal of Chinese materia medica · 2018
- Phytochemical composition and biological activities of Orobanche crenata Forssk.: a review.Natural product research · 2021
- Genuine and Sequestered Natural Products from the Genus Orobanche (Orobanchaceae, Lamiales).Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) · 2018
- Orobanche crenata Forssk. Extract Affects Human Breast Cancer Cell MCF-7 Survival and Viral Replication.Cells · 2022
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Encyclopedic overview
6 sectionsContents
- Description
- Parasitism
- Etymology
- Species
- References
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Orobanche, commonly known as broomrape, is a genus of almost 200 species of small parasitic herbaceous plants, mostly native to the temperate Northern Hemisphere. It is the type genus of the broomrape family Orobanchaceae. It is a weed on broadleaf crop plants in Australia, where some states enforce mandatory destruction and reporting, as well as prohibition of sale.
==Description== Broomrapes are generally small, only tall depending on species. They are best recognized by the yellow- to straw-coloured stems completely lacking chlorophyll, bearing yellow, white, or blue snapdragon-like flowers. The flower shoots are scaly, with a dense terminal spike of 10-20 flowers in most species, although single in one-flowered broomrape (Orobanche uniflora). The leaves are merely triangular scales. The seeds are minute, tan or brown, blackening with age. These plants generally flower from late winter to late spring. When they are not flowering, no part of the plants is visible above the surface of the soil.
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