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Phelypaea
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Phelypaea

Phelypaea is a genus of flowering plants in the broomrape family Orobanchaceae, native to the Balkans, Greece, Crimea, the Caucasus region, Anatolia, the Levant, Iraq and Iran. They are root parasites which cannot conduct photosynthesis and are only seen above ground when flowering.

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4 branches of this genus, most-observed first

Phelypaea coccinea

speciesPhelypaea coccinea

Phelypaea tournefortii

speciesPhelypaea tournefortii

Phelypaea boissieri

speciesPhelypaea boissieri

Phelypaea helenae

speciesPhelypaea helenae

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Recorded sightings

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In the old herbals & bestiaries

Phelypaea in Elements of Botany

Elements of Botany

Joseph Pitton de Tournefort · 1719 · p.230

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 576360.