Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

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Orobanche cernua var. australiana

Common name

Australian Broomrape, Broomrape

Family

Orobanchaceae

Where found

Woodland and mallee along drainage lines. Western Slopes.

Notes

Brown herb, usually to 0.45 m high, parasitic on roots. Sticky hairy. Leaves alternating up the stem, without chlorophyll, 0.8–2 cm long, 2–5 mm wide, bracts larger than the leaves. Flowers 15–20 mm long, purple at least on the lobes, tubular, 2-lipped, with 5 obscurely scalloped lobes. Flowers more or less hairless except for small patches of hairs. Flowers subtended by leaflike bracts, often larger than the leaves, in a spike up the stem. Flowers mostly spring.  

Family was Scrophulariaceae.

General Biosecurity Duty all NSW, but not prohibited matter in NSW. Weedwise https://weeds.dpi.nsw.gov.au/Weeds/Broomrapes (accessed 13 April 2021). 

Vulnerable Vic.

PlantNET description:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Orobanche~cernua (accessed 13 April 2021)