Biology:Orobanche ramosa

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Short description: Species of flowering plant

Orobanche ramosa
Orobanche ramosaTorrevieja.jpg
Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Lamiales
Family: Orobanchaceae
Genus: Orobanche
Species:
O. ramosa
Binomial name
Orobanche ramosa
Synonyms
List
  • Kopsia ramosa (L.) Dumort.
  • Phelipanche ramosa (L.) Pomel
  • Phelypaea ramosa (L.) C.A.Mey.
  • Kopsia ramosa f. polyclonos (Wallr.) Bég.
  • Lathraea phelypea Forssk.
  • Orobanche albiflora Gren. & Godr.
  • Orobanche cannabios F.W.Schultz
  • Orobanche cannabis Vaucher
  • Orobanche commutata Zumagl.
  • Orobanche micrantha Wallr.
  • Orobanche monoclonos Beck
  • Orobanche ramosa var. monoclonos (Wallr.) Delip.
  • Orobanche ramosa var. polyclonos Wallr.
  • Phelypaea aegyptiaca Hook.f. & Thomson in
  • Phelypaea albiflora Gren. & Godr.
  • Phelypaea emarginata Reut.
  • Phelypaea ramosa var. monoclonos Wallr.
  • Phelypaea ramosissima Gennari
  • Phelypaea reuteri Moris

Orobanche ramosa is a species of broomrape known by the common names hemp broomrape[1][2] and branched broomrape. It is native to Eurasia and North Africa, but it is known in many other places as an introduced species and sometimes a noxious weed.[3]

It is a pest in agricultural fields, infesting crops including tobacco,[citation needed] potato,[4] and tomato.[5]

The plant produces many slender, erect stems from a thick root. The yellowish stems grow 10 to 60 centimeters tall and are coated in glandular hairs. The broomrape is parasitic on other plants, draining nutrients from their roots, and it lacks leaves and chlorophyll. The inflorescence bears several flowers, each in a yellowish calyx of sepals and with a tubular white and blue to purple corolla.

References

  1. (xls) BSBI List 2007, Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland, https://bsbi.org/download/3542/, retrieved 2014-10-17 
  2. "Orobanche ramosa". Natural Resources Conservation Service PLANTS Database. USDA. https://plants.usda.gov/core/profile?symbol=ORRA. 
  3. Joel, D. M. (2009). "The new nomenclature of Orobanche and Phelipanche". Weed Research 49: 6–7. doi:10.1111/j.1365-3180.2009.00748.x. 
  4. Haidar, M. A. (2005). "Selective control of Orobanche ramosa in potato with rimsulfuron and sub-lethal doses of glyphosate". Crop Protection 24 (8): 743–47. doi:10.1016/j.cropro.2005.01.005. 
  5. Mauromicale, G. (2008). "Effect of branched broomrape (Orobanche ramosa) infection on the growth and photosynthesis of tomato". Weed Science 56 (4): 574–81. doi:10.1614/ws-07-147.1. 

Further reading

External links

Wikidata ☰ Q159083 entry