Phelypaea

Phelypaea is a genus of flowering plants in the broomrape family Orobanchaceae, native to the Balkans, Greece, Crimea, the Caucasus region, Anatolia, the Levant, Iraq and Iran. They are root parasites which cannot conduct photosynthesis and are only seen above ground when flowering.

==Species== Currently accepted species include: {| class="wikitable" |- ! Image !! Scientific name !! Distribution |- | ||Phelypaea boissieri (Reut.) Stapf||Albania, Greece, Yugoslavia |- |120px||Phelypaea coccinea (M.Bieb.) Poir.||Greece, Iran, Krym, Iraq, Lebanon-Syria, Transcaucasus, Turkey |- | ||Phelypaea helenae Popl. ex Sukaczev||Krym |- |120px||Phelypaea tournefortii Desf.||Transcaucasus, Turkey |- |}