| Boschniakia ressica (Cham. & Schlecht.) Fedtsch. | |||
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| Family | Orobanchaceae — APG family: Orobanchaceae | ||
| Synonyms | Orobanche rossica Cham. & Schlecht., Boschniakia glabra Bong. | ||
| Description | Nearly glabrous, brownish; stems several, coarse, with incrassated base; in- florescence longer than stem, bracts scalelike, broadly elliptic to ovate, ciliate; calyx half as long as corolla, with irregular lobes; corolla brownish-red, ciliated in margin; upper lip entire or emarginate, the lower short, 3-lobed; stamens exserted. | ||
| Ecology | Parasitic on the roots of Alnus crispa; in the mountains to at least 1,200 meters. Described from Kotzebue Sound and Siberia. |
This is a digital representation of Eric Hultén’s ‘Flora of Alaska and Neighboring Territories: A Manual of the Vascular Plants’, which was published by Stanford University Press in 1968. The book was digitized by C. Webb (at UAMN) as part of the Flora of Alaska project, with funding by the US NSF (Grant 1759964 to Ickert-Bond & Webb), and with permission of Stanford University Press. Data and images © 1968 Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Jr. Univ. Usage licence: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0. NB: You may find OCR errors; please refer to the hard-copy if in doubt.