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  • COMMON NAME: nodding broomrape
  • ARABIC: هالوك، ذانون
  • BOTANICAL NAME: Orobanche cernua Loefl.
  • SYNONYMS: O. cumana Wallr.
  • FAMILY: OROBANCHACEAE
  • KIND: Native
  • EMIRATE: Abu-Dhabi , Dubai , Sharjah , Fujairah
  • GROWTH FORMS: Herbs Succulent
  • HABITATS: Wadi Gulley Sandy
  • TYPES: Perennial
  • REMARKS: Wadi Wurayah National Park (WWNP). Hosts are usually members of the Solanaceae family.
https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:662226-1/general-information Flora of the United Arab Emirates V1 & 2, Fawzi M.Karim, Nael M.Fawzi; reviewed by Fatima Al-Ansary. Al-Ain: United Arab Emirates University, 2007. Gary R. Feulner. 2014. The Flora of Wadi Wurayah National Park Fujairah, United Arab Emirates. V.V. Byalt, V.M. Korshunov, M.V. Korshunov. Cadaster of the Flora of Fujairah Emirate (United Arab Emirates). Al Fujairah 2021. M.V.D jongbloed, G.R. Fuelner, B. Boer, A.R. Western. the comprehensive guide to the wild flowers of the United Arab Emirates. Environmental research and wildlife Development agency, Abu Dhabi, 2003.
Perennial erect, non-green, glandular-puberulent underbranched, leafless, fleshy herb, 15-45 cm high. Leaves reduced to scale-like, triangular-lanceolate, acute, about 1 cm long, of the upper part of the whole scape floriferous; inflorescences cylindrical, dense spike. Flowers 15-20 mm long, sessile, zygomorphic and bracteate. Bracteoles absent. Calyx with 2 main lobes, one is divided into unequal two acute parts, and the other one not divided, 7-10 mm long. Corolla-limb intensely blue, tube white, turning glossy when dry, 10-15 mm long. Stamens 4, unequal, epipetalous, with filaments glabrous at base, anthers glabrescent. Capsule 7-12 mm long, ellipsoid-ovoid. Seeds numerous, brown. Flowering from February to May.
Hills, wadis, plantations.
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