Unité de Malherbologie & Agronomie Weed Science & Agronomy INRA-Dijon

Bayer Code : oracr

Scientific name: Orobanche crenata Forskal

Synonym(s) of Sc. name: Orobanche speciosa DCO. speciosa DC

Classification: Orobanchaceae, Dicotyledonous

Common name: bean broomrape

Synonym(s) of Common name:

Name per country: ES : jopo ; FR : orobanche chevelue ; IT : succiamele delle fave ; PT : penachos ; EN : bean broomrape ;

Biological type: Annual, Perennial

Seed:

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Seedling:

- Cotyledons absent, hypogeal germination, root -parasite.

Adult plant:

- Height: 30-70 cm. Parasite plant devoid of chlorophyll, glandular -hairy.

- Stem stout, yellowish or blueish, slightly swollen at base.

- Leaves scale -like, large, 2-3 cm long.

- Flowers white purple-striped, 20-30 mm, erect-spreading or spreading, in more or less lax spike, with a smell of cloves. Sepals bifid. Filaments included in the corolla -tube, very hairy at base, 2-3 mm. Stigma light-purple.

- Plant parasite on some species of Papilionaceae and sometimes on horticultural plants.

- Rare in crops.

- Biological type: annual or perennial according to the biological type of the host plant.

Ecological profile (click on flags):   Present       Rare       Present       Present    

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