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Annual herb, parasite, 0.1-0.6 m high; stem erect, simple or branched near base, pubescent to subglabrous. Leaves 3.5-13.0 x 1-2 mm, scale-like, opposite or alternate, lanceolate to ovate-oblong, entire, hispid, apex obtuse. Inflorescence a spike with many, small, orange-yellow flowers, red-veined on reverse, in axils of upper leaves. Bracts linear to oblong, hispid-pubescent. Calyx campanulate, externally pubescent, internally glabrous; lobes ovate or obtuse, ± equal. Corolla veined; lobes elliptic, obtuse or spathulate. Stamens Sub-Equal; filaments ± glabrous; anthers elliptic, obtuse. Ovary globose, glabrous; style compressed; stigma simple, glabrous. Flowering time Feb., Mar.
Annual, holoparasitic herb, up to 0.6 m high. Stems slender, simple, or branched only from base, base of stem orange. Leaves rudimentary; blade scale-like, 2-5 mm long, margins entire, greyish green. Flowers: in false whorls, opposite or solitary; corolla 20 mm in diameter when expanded, yellow or orange; Jan.-Jun.
Erect, parasitic herb, up to 300 mm tall. Stems slender, simple (or branched only from base), base of stem orange. Leaves squamiform, 2-5 mm long, entire. Flowers in false whorls, opposite or solitary, 20 mm in diameter when expanded. Flowers yellow or orange.
Leaves 3.5–9(13) x (1)1.5–2 mm., appressed to subappressed or spreading, opposite or alternate, lanceolate, lanceolate-oblong to ovate-oblong, acute or obtuse, entire to crenate or remotely shortly toothed, sessile throughout, hispid or hispid-scabrid.
Erect, parasitic herb, up to 350 mm tall, almost leafless, drying black. Stems simple or branching from base only. Robust flowers sessile or with short pedicels (1-3 mm). Corolla up to 15 mm long. Flowers yellow.
Erect herb, 10–45 cm. tall; stems branched from or near to base, or simple, shortly hispid-pubescent to subglabrous, rarely not drying black.
Calyx 4–6(7) mm. long, shortly hispid; lobes 1.5–2(3) mm. long, broadly triangular, obtuse, margin frequently thickened and scabrid.
Flowers solitary in axils of leaves or leaf-like bracts, pedicellate; pedicels 1–1.5 mm. long.
Stamens unequal; filaments slightly to heavily bearded; anthers obtuse, not apiculate.
Corolla yellow to orange, dark purple striated, longer than calyx, lobes rounded.
Bracteoles 2–4(5) x 0.25–1 mm., linear to filiform, shortly ciliate to glabrous.
Bracts leaf-like 3–6.5 x 1–2 mm., linear to oblong, hispid-pubescent.
Capsule 4–6.5(9) x 3.25–6 mm., broadly ovoid to subglobose, glabrous.
