Alectra parasitica A.Rich.

An erect branched parasite ; up to 6–30 cm high , parasitic on roots , drying black . Stems erect , slender , simple or with several branches arising from the base , puberulous ; with orange-yellow roots . Leaves opposite to alternate , 4–10 × 2–5 mm , sessile , few on the stem , thick and scale-like , embracing the stem , ovate-lanceolate to linear-lanceolate , entire , acute to obtuse , base shortly cuneate , puberulous to hispid on both surfaces . Inflorescences in terminal racemes , solitary in the axils of leaf-like bracts present in the upper part of the stem ; pedicels ± 2 mm ; bracts 3–4 mm , linearlanceolate ; bracteoles ± 2 mm , linear . Flowers small , orange with red to purple veins ; calyx 5–6 mm , campanulate with 10 distinct nerves , lobes 3–4 mm , triangular , margin thick , puberulous to hispid ; corolla orange with crimson red to purplish veins , 4-lobed , about 2 x length of calyx , lobes ± equal , rounded ; stamens 4 , ± unequal ; filaments glabrous ; anthers not apiculate . ... Fruit capsule , 4–5 mm , subglobose , glabrous , enveloped by the calyx , with many minute seeds . (Ref . Flora of Oman ; vol . 3) .

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Not Evaluated (NE)

Not Common

Melasma parasiticum (A.Rich.) M.R.Almeida