OROBANCHACEAE
Morphological description
Herbaceous echlorophyllose root parasites.
Leaves
Leaves scale-like.
Inflorescence
Inflorescence.
Flowers
Flower bisexual, zygomorphic, corolla tubular, stamens 4, ovary superior, placentation parietal.
Fruit
Fruit.
Seed
Seed.
Different from: Scrophulariaceae: plants with chlorophyll, placentation axile.
Distribution: The family is widespread, especially in the northern hemisphere. In Malesia only Aeginetia and Christisonia, both rare.
Notes: notes.
Literature: Keng, Orders and Families of Malaysian Seed Plants (1978) 276; R. Kiew, Nat. Malays. 14 (1989) 94-95.
Spot characters (Van Balgooy): Aeginetia 11 - Christisonia 11.
Illustrations: Fig. 133. Christisonia scortechinii Prain (Orobanchaceae). Reproduced from M.R. Henderson, Malayan wild flowers, Dicotyledons (1949/51, repr. 1974) 335. With kind permission of the Malaysian Nature Society.
Image in PhytoImages for Orobanchaceae