Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
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Orobanche minor
Lesser broomrape, Clover broomrape
Orobanchaceae
Forest, grassy areas, gardens, and moist sites. Widespread. Uncommon on the coast, ranges, and tablelands.
Introduced parasitic herb to 0.4 m tall. Stem and flowers sticky hairy. Plant appears leafless. Leaves alternating up the stem, without chlorophyll, 1-1.5 cm long, 1-3 mm wide, bracts smaller than the leaves. Flowers pinkish, or pale blue to whitish, often with purple veins, 9-18 mm long, tubular, 2-lipped, with 5 densely and irregularly toothed lobes. Flowers subtended by small leaflike bracts, in a spike up the stem. Flowers mainly 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).
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Orobanche~minor (accessed 13 April 2021)
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