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California broomrape

Habit Plants simple or sparsely branched below ground, 5–10(–15) cm, portion proximal to inflorescence 3–8(–12) cm, slender or stout.
Inflorescences

corymbs, sometimes subcorymbose or subcapitate racemes, 2–6 cm;

bracts pallid to pinkish tinged, drying brown.

Pedicels

5–12 mm.

Corollas

sordid white to yellowish distally, 25–35 mm;

tube relatively broad, usually abruptly widening slightly toward throat;

throat 6–8 mm wide;

lips 8–10(–12) mm, abaxial lobes lanceolate-oblong to narrowly triangular, 3–4 mm wide, apex bluntly acute or obtuse, sometimes retuse or emarginate, adaxial lobes broadly oblong, apex obtuse, rounded, or emarginate, rarely acute.

Calyces

10–16(–20) mm, lobes whitish or yellow, tinged with purple, linear-subulate, 7–13 mm.

2n

= 48.

Orobanche californica subsp. condensa

Phenology Flowering May–Jun.
Habitat Sandy or gravelly soils of dry bottomlands.
Elevation 100–500 m. (300–1600 ft.)
Distribution
from FNA
CA
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Discussion

Subspecies condensa is found in the interior South Coast Ranges of southern California from San Benito to Santa Barbara counties. It appears to be host specific on Heterotheca villosa (Asteraceae).

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)

Source FNA vol. 17, p. 480.
Parent taxa Orobanchaceae > Orobanche > Orobanche californica
Sibling taxa
O. californica subsp. californica, O. californica subsp. feudgei, O. californica subsp. grandis, O. californica subsp. grayana, O. californica subsp. jepsonii
Synonyms Aphyllon californicum subsp. condensum
Name authority Heckard: Madroño 22: 59, fig. 1I–L. (1973)
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