Common Name: BROOMRAPE FAMILY Habit: Annual, perennial herb, shrub; often glandular; root-parasites, roots modified into absorptive structures. Stem: generally round in ×-section. Leaf: generally simple, generally alternate, reduced to +- fleshy scales in non-green plants lacking chlorophyll; stipules generally 0. Inflorescence: spike to panicle, generally bracted, or flowers 1--2 in axils. Flower: bisexual; calyx lobes 0--5; corolla generally strongly bilateral, generally 2-lipped (upper lip generally 2-lobed, lower lip generally 3-lobed), abaxial lobes outside other lobes in bud; stamens epipetalous, 4 in 2 pairs (sometimes 1 pair sterile), additional staminode 0(1), anther sacs unequal; ovary superior, chambers 1--2, placentas 2--4, parietal, style 1, stigma lobes 0 or 2. Fruit: capsule, generally +- ovoid, loculicidal, valves 2--4. Seed: many, small, angled; surface smooth or netted. Genera In Family: +- 100 genera, 2060 species: worldwide, especially northern temperate and Africa. Note: High yield losses in many crops caused by Orobanche and Phelipanche species in Africa, Mediterranean, Middle East, and eastern Europe. Taxa of Orobanche in TJM2 treated here in Aphyllon and Phelipanche. eFlora Treatment Author: Margriet Wetherwax, except as noted Scientific Editor: Robert W. Patterson, Bruce G. Baldwin.
Etymology: (Tomaso Parentucelli, early Renaissance librarian to Cosimo de' Medici in Florence; as humanist Pope Nicholas V, 1447--1455, established Vatican library and gardens) Note:Parentucellia viscosa transferred to Bellardia. eFlora Treatment Author: Margriet Wetherwax & David J. Keil Reference: Uribe-Convers & Tank 2016 Syst Bot 41: 672--684
Parentucellia latifolia (L.) Caruel
NATURALIZED Habit: Annual, green, sometimes purple-tinged, sticky-hairy, generally erect and unbranched. Stem: < 30 cm. Leaf: generally opposite, sessile, 4--12 mm, triangular-lanceolate, dentate, margins often +- purple. Inflorescence: raceme, spike-like, proximally interrupted, bracted, bracts deeply lobed. Flower: calyx 6--12 mm, 4-lobed, lobes +- 1/2 tube length, +- equal, triangular-lanceolate, margins +- purple; corolla 8--18 mm, 2-lipped, persistent, red-purple, sometimes lobes white-tipped, upper lip forming hood, entire, lower lip > upper, 3-lobed, with 2 yellow, partly free ridge-like appendages on lower lip near throat; stamens 4, in 2 pairs, included in upper corolla lip, anthers hairy, awned at base; stigma +- club-like, sometimes 2-lobed, included in upper corolla lip. Fruit: +- cylindric, +- = calyx, glabrous. Seed: many, minute, smooth. Ecology: Locally common, grassy areas, roadsides; Elevation: < 220 m. Bioregional Distribution: s NCo, s NCoRO, n CCo, n SnFrB; Distribution Outside California: native to Europe. Flowering Time: Mar--Jun Jepson eFlora Author: Margriet Wetherwax & David J. Keil Reference: Uribe-Convers & Tank 2016 Syst Bot 41: 672--684 Index of California Plant Names (ICPN; linked via the Jepson Online Interchange) Previous taxon: Parentucellia Next taxon: Pedicularis
Botanical illustration including Parentucellia latifolia
Citation for this treatment: Margriet Wetherwax & David J. Keil 2023, Parentucellia latifolia, in Jepson Flora Project (eds.) Jepson eFlora, Revision 12, https://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/eflora/eflora_display.php?tid=36249, accessed on April 25, 2024.
Citation for the whole project: Jepson Flora Project (eds.) 2024, Jepson eFlora, https://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/eflora/, accessed on April 25, 2024.
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