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Cistanche phelypaea (L.) Cout.

Yellow broomrape (en), Cistanque (fr), Cistanche phélypée (fr), Orobanche des teinturiers (fr), Phélypée du Portugal (fr)

Species

Angiosperms > Lamiales > Orobanchaceae > Cistanche

Characteristics

It grows attached to other plants. A stout erect plant. It is hairless and keeps growing from year to year. The stems are thick and often fattened near the base. The leaves are like scales and oval to sword shaped. They are thin and have teeth. The flowers are bright, shiny yellow. They are 30-40 mm long and in dense cone like spikes. The calyx has 5 lobes. The corolla has 5 or more lobes.
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Stem 6-18 in. high, swollen at base
Flowers bright yellow
Life form perennial
Growth form herb
Growth support parasite
Foliage retention -
Sexuality hermaphrodite
Pollination -
Spread -
Mature width (meter) -
Mature height (meter) 0.3 - 0.5
Root system -
Rooting depth (meter) -
Root diameter (meter) -
Flower color
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Nitrogen fixer -
Photosynthetic pathway -

Environment

It is a Mediterranean climate plant. It grows on woody members of the Chenopodiaceae family. It grows in dry sandy coastal and inland sites in the Sahel in West Africa. It cannot tolerate frost. It can grow in salty soils. It grows between sea level and 1,500 m above sea level. It can grow in arid places.
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Parasitic, growing on plants in maritime and sandy inland areas. The main host plants are Tamarix gallica, Calligonum comosum and Pulicaria species
Parasite on plants in maritime and sandy inland habitats.
Found in dry sandy coastal and inland sites.
Light -
Soil humidity -
Soil texture 5-6
Soil acidity -
Soil nutriment -
Hardiness (USDA) 7-12

Usage

The plant is used in soups. The root tubers are also eaten by baking over coals.
Uses animal food dye food gene source material medicinal
Edible leaves roots stems
Therapeutic use Diarrhea (unspecified)
Human toxicity -
Animal toxicity -

Cultivation

Can be grown by seedlings.
Mode seedlings
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Germination treatment -
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Optimum temperature (C°) -
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Images

Habit

Cistanche phelypaea habit picture by Martin Love (cc-by-sa)
Cistanche phelypaea habit picture by Manfred Jensen (cc-by-sa)
Cistanche phelypaea habit picture by Maarten Vanhove (cc-by-sa)

Leaf

Cistanche phelypaea leaf picture by Vir Guillén (cc-by-sa)
Cistanche phelypaea leaf picture by Gilbert ROEGEL (cc-by-sa)
Cistanche phelypaea leaf picture by Meike Wolff (cc-by-sa)

Flower

Cistanche phelypaea flower picture by Blanco Pastor Jose Luis (cc-by-sa)
Cistanche phelypaea flower picture by SiViajar Cata (cc-by-sa)
Cistanche phelypaea flower picture by SiViajar Cata (cc-by-sa)

Distribution

Cistanche phelypaea world distribution map, present in Anguilla, Cabo Verde, Cyprus, Djibouti, Algeria, Egypt, Eritrea, Spain, Ethiopia, France, Greece, Libya, Sri Lanka, Morocco, Mali, Mozambique, Mauritania, Niger, Oman, Pakistan, Portugal, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Senegal, Somalia, Chad, Tunisia, and Yemen

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:661964-1
WFO ID wfo-0000607105
COL ID VL7Y
BDTFX ID 17889
INPN ID 91622
Wikipedia (EN) Link
Wikipedia (FR)

Synonyms

Cistanche tubulosa f. albiflora Cistanche lutea f. minor Phelypaea tinctoria Phelypaea brunneri Phelypaea hesperugo Cistanche brunneri Cistanche lusitanica Cistanche lutea Cistanche tubulosa Lathraea phelypaea Phelypaea lusitanica Cistanche allochroa Cistanche hesperugo Cistanche senegalensis Phelipaea lutea Phelypaea senegalensis Cistanche tubulosa var. tomentosa Cistanche phelypaea
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