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Striga hermonthica - Flowering Striga infecting a sorghum crop - Click to enlarge!

Flowering Striga infecting a sorghum crop; Wad Medani, Sudan; 10/2006 © Jan Grenz

Striga hermonthica - Flowers - Click to enlarge!

Flowers; Wad Medani, Sudan; 10/2006 © Jan Grenz

Striga hermonthica - Sorghum infested with Striga, in the background healthy crop - Click to enlarge!

Sorghum infested with Striga, in the background healthy crop; Barakat, Gezira irrigation scheme, Sudan; 10/2006 © Jan Grenz

Dataset

Identifier: 462
Date of entry: 23.10.2006
Last update: 11.01.2020

Common name

English: Purple witchweed

Classification

Kingdom: Plantae (2715)

  Phylum: Tracheophyta (2630)

    Class: Magnoliopsida (2217)

      Order: Scrophulariales (81)

        Family: Orobanchaceae (15)(family description)

          Genus: Striga (2)

            Epithet: hermonthica (Del.) Benth. (1)

hermonthica => refers to the town of Armant (known in Greek as Hermonthis, located about 12 miles south of Thebes, in Egypt)

Characteristics

Climate: sub-tropical, tropical

Habitat: mesophytic

Habit: herb

Flower colour: violet

External links

Check for Striga hermonthica at

World Flora Online, GBIF or IPNI

Literature

  • [12] Dokosi, O.B. (1998): Herbs of Ghana. Ghana University Press, Accra, Ghana.

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