Orobanche minor




Family Orobanchaceae
Scientific name Orobanche minor Smith
Synonyms Orobanche abyssinica A. Richard; Orobanche angela Lesson; Orobanche apiculata Wallroth; Orobanche arvensis Dumortier; Orobanche barbata Williams; Orobanche columbariae Grenier; Orobanche columbiana St. John & English; Orobanche concolor Duby; Orobanche crithmi Grenier; Orobanche crithmi-maritimi F. W. Schultz; Orobanche dipsaci Wirtgen; Orobanche euglossa Reichenbach f.; Orobanche hyalina Spruner ex Reuter; Orobanche klugei J. Schmitz & Regel; Orobanche laurina Berthold, non Reichenbach f.; Orobanche leucanthemi Coste & Soulié; Orobanche litorea Gussone; Orobanche livida Sendtner ex Freyn; Orobanche minor Smith subsp. crithmi (Gren.) Bonnier & Layens; Orobanche minor Smith subsp. grenieri Nyman; Orobanche minor Smith subsp. unicolor (Boreau) Rouy; Orobanche nudiflora Wallroth; Orobanche pumila Reichenbach f.; Orobanche pyrrha Reichenbach f.; Orobanche trifolii-pratensis F. W. Schultz; Orobanche unicolor Boreau; Orobanche yuccae Pa. Savi ex Berthold
Common name (Japanese common name) yase-utsubo (ヤセウツボ, 痩靫 [meaning: slim utsubo-gusa (utsubo-gusa = Prunella vulgaris)])
(English common name) hellroot, small broomrape
Distribution (Japan) Honshu, Shikoku, Kyushu
(Other nations) [native] Caucasus, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, Turkey, Cyprus, Europe, Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Morocco, Tunisia
Habitat Field, riverside
Chromosomal number 2n=38
Description Plants 15-50cm tall. Flowers corollas 12-15mm long, flowering in April to May. Annual plants.
Reference Orobanche minor Sm.
Orobanche minor Sm.
Use of glyphosate salts in seed dressing herbicidal compositions (US Patent 6096686/2000)
Production of pathogen resistant plants (US Patent 6166291/2000)
Transgenic plants protected against parasitic plants (US Patent 20040172671/2004)
Note Parasitic plants.
Naturalized plants (first reported in 1937).



May 2007
at riverside
May 2007
at riverside
May 2007
at riverside