Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
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)
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