Family |
Orobanchaceae
Parentucellia flaviflora
(Boiss.) Nevski
Parentucellia flaviflora (Boiss.) Nevski
First published in Trudy Bot. Inst. Akad. Nauk S.S.S.R, Ser. 1, Fl. Sist. Vyssh. Rast. 4: 321 (1937).
(Nouvelle Flore du Liban et de la Syrie, vol. 3, pp. 266–267, Pl. CXXXV, 3; 1983)
Description
Life-form & habit: Small annual herb, 5–20 cm tall, described by Mouterde within Parentucellia latifolia.
Leaves: Stalkless, about 1 cm long, ovate to ovate-oblong; lower leaves crenate, upper leaves almost palmately divided.
Inflorescence & flowers: An initially ovate spike becomes elongated and interrupted below. Calyx teeth oblong and shorter than the tube. Corolla 8–10 mm long and sulphur-yellow in var. flaviflora; anthers hairless.
Flowering and habitat
Phenology: April–May in Mouterde's treatment.
Habitat & elevation: More or less damp places.
Distribution
Lebanese distribution: Mouterde explicitly notes var. flaviflora growing with purple-flowered plants at Bchela above Jbail. Also recorded at Sannine and Bqaatouta.
Native range: Cyprus, Iran, Iraq, Kazakhstan, Kirgizstan, Lebanon-Syria, Palestine, Tadzhikistan, Turkmenistan, Türkiye, Uzbekistan.
⚠️ Taxonomic note:
Mouterde treats this taxon as Parentucellia latifolia var. flaviflora Boiss.; Kew accepts it at species rank as P. flaviflora (Boiss.) Nevski and lists Eufragia latifolia var. flaviflora Boiss. among its synonyms. Mouterde's wider locality list combines several flower-colour forms of P. latifolia and is not assigned here wholesale to P. flaviflora.