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Phelypaea
Sign in to savePhelypaea 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.
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Within Vinony's link graph, Phelypaea is referenced by 2 other articles, and connects out to plant, Carl Linnaeus and Wikidata.
It sits within the topics Orobanchaceae and Orobanchaceae genera.
Its subject is documented across 6 Wikipedia language editions.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomPlantae
- PhylumTracheophyta
- ClassMagnoliopsida
- OrderLamiales
- FamilyOrobanchaceae
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 4
- With media
- 4
- Family
- Orobanchaceae
- Collections
- O, BG
- Recorded in
- Algeria
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Orobancheae
- Image
- Phelypaea foliata 141-8615.jpg
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Encyclopedic overview
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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 |- |}
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