7625.000 Striga Lour.

Literature

Hepper, F.N. (1990) Striga FZ 8(2) 127-135

Description of the genus

Annual, rarely perennial, root-parasitic herbs. Stems stiffly erect, often square. Leaves opposite or nearly so, ± sessile. Inflorescence a spike. Flowers in axils of leaves or in dense heads. Bracts leaf-like or reduced, bracteoles 2. Calyx tubular, 5-lobed or with 5 (rarely 4) teeth. Corolla with a narrow tube, sharply bent above middle, expanded above; the upper (2) lobes erect, lower (3) lobes spreading. Stamens 4; anthers strictly 1-thecous. Fruit a cylindric or ± ovoid capsule. Seeds minute.

Worldwide: 40 species in the Old World tropics and S Africa

Striga gesnerioides

Links to taxa (7)    View: living plant images - herbarium specimen images - all images for this genus

angustifolia (Don) C.J. SaldanhaCE
asiatica (L.) KuntzeNWCEDescription, Image
bilabiata (Thunb.) KuntzeNWCE
elegans Benth.NWCESDescription, Image
forbesii Benth.NWCES
gesnerioides (Willd.) VatkeNWCESDescription, Image
macrantha (Benth.) Benth.C

Other sources of information about Striga:

Flora of Mozambique: Striga
ePIC (electronic Plant Information Center): Striga
Flora Zambesiaca web site: Striga
Google: Web - Images - Scholar
GRIN (Germplasm Resources Information Network) taxonomy for plants report for Striga
IPNI (International Plant Names Index): Striga
Kew Herbarium catalogue: Striga

Copyright: Mark Hyde and Bart Wursten, 2002-10

Hyde, M.A. & Wursten, B. (2010). Flora of Zimbabwe: Genus page: Striga.
http://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/genus.php?genus_id=1298, retrieved 6 September 2010

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