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The genus Orobanche is in the family Orobanchaceae in the major group Angiosperms (Flowering plants).

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Orobanche

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See "Status", "Confidence level", "Source" for definitions.

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source
Orobanche aegyptiaca Pers.	Accepted		TRO
Orobanche alba Stephan	Accepted		TRO
Orobanche alsatica Kirschl.	Accepted		TRO
Orobanche amethystea Thuill.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Orobanche amoena C.A. Mey.	Accepted		TRO
Orobanche androssovii Novopokr.	Accepted		TRO
Orobanche australis Moris ex Bertol.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Orobanche borissovae Novopokr.	Accepted		TRO
Orobanche brachypoda Novopokr.	Accepted		TRO
Orobanche brassicae (Novopokr.) Novopokr.	Accepted		TRO
Orobanche bungeana Beck	Accepted		TRO
Orobanche canescens C.Presl	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Orobanche caryophyllacea Sm.	Accepted		TRO
Orobanche cernua Loefl.	Accepted		TRO
Orobanche chilensis (Phil.) Beck	Accepted		TRO
Orobanche cilicica Beck	Accepted		TRO
Orobanche clarkei Hook. f.	Accepted		TRO
Orobanche coelestis Boiss. & Reut. ex Beck	Accepted		TRO
Orobanche coerulescens Stephan ex Willd.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Orobanche corymbosa (Rydb.) R.S. Ferris	Accepted		TRO
Orobanche crenata Forssk.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Orobanche dalmatica Tzvelev	Accepted		TRO
Orobanche denudata Moris	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Orobanche elatior Sutton	Accepted		TRO
Orobanche fasciculata Nutt.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Orobanche foetida Poir.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Orobanche gracilis Sm.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Orobanche hederae Duby	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Orobanche hirtiflora Burkill	Accepted		TRO
Orobanche hohenackeri Tzvelev	Accepted		TRO
Orobanche iberica Tzvelev	Accepted		TRO
Orobanche ingens (Beck) Tzvelev	Accepted		TRO
Orobanche karatavica Pavlov	Accepted		TRO
Orobanche kelleri Novopokr.	Accepted		TRO
Orobanche kotschyi Reut.	Accepted		TRO
Orobanche krylowii Beck	Accepted		TRO
Orobanche lanuginosa (C.A. Mey.) Beck ex Krylov	Accepted		TRO
Orobanche lavandulacea Rchb.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Orobanche litorea Guss.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Orobanche ludoviciana Nutt.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Orobanche lutea Baumg.	Accepted		TRO
Orobanche lycoctonii Rhiner	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Orobanche megalantha Harry Sm.	Accepted		TRO
Orobanche minor Sm.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Orobanche mongolica Beck	Accepted		TRO
Orobanche multicaulis Brandegee	Accepted		TRO
Orobanche mupinensis Hu	Accepted		TRO
Orobanche mutelii F.W.Schultz	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Orobanche ombrochares Hance	Accepted		TRO
Orobanche orientalis Beck	Accepted		TRO
Orobanche oxyloba Beck	Accepted		TRO
Orobanche pallidiflora Wimm. & Grab.	Accepted		TRO
Orobanche parishii (Jeps.) Heckard	Accepted		TRO
Orobanche picridis F.W.Schultz	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Orobanche pinorum Geyer ex Hook.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Orobanche pubescens d'Urv.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Orobanche pulchella Novopokr.	Accepted		TRO
Orobanche purpurea Jacq.	Accepted		TRO
Orobanche pycnostachya Hance	Accepted		TRO
Orobanche ramosa L.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Orobanche rapum-genistae Thuill.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Orobanche rechingeri Gilli	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Orobanche rigens Loisel.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Orobanche schultzii Mutel	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Orobanche septemloba Tzvelev	Accepted		TRO
Orobanche serratocalyx Beck	Accepted		TRO
Orobanche sinensis Harry Sm.	Accepted		TRO
Orobanche sogdiana Novopokr.	Accepted		TRO
Orobanche solmsii C.B. Clarke	Accepted		TRO
Orobanche sordida C.A. Mey.	Accepted		TRO
Orobanche tacnaensis Mattf.	Accepted		TRO
Orobanche tarapacana Phil.	Accepted		TRO
Orobanche tetuanensis Ball	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Orobanche teucrii Holandre	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Orobanche uralensis Beck	Accepted		TRO
Orobanche vallicola (Jeps.) Heckard	Accepted		TRO
Orobanche variegata Wallr.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Orobanche weberbaueri Mattf.	Accepted		TRO
Orobanche yunnanensis (Beck) Hand.-Mazz.	Accepted		TRO

Statistics

The Plant List includes 676 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Orobanche. Of these 79 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 86 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Orobanche. We do not intend The Plant List to be complete for names of infraspecific rank. These are primarily included because names of species rank are synonyms of accepted infraspecific names.

Species names

The status of the 676 species names for the genus Orobanche recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	79	11.7%
◕	Synonym	89	13.2%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	508	75.1%

All names

The status of the 762 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Orobanche recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	90	11.8%
◕	Synonym	149	19.6%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	523	68.6%

Of these names,

• 1 are recorded as invalid
• 2 are recorded as illegitimate

The confidence with which the status of the 676 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Orobanche, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	0	0	0	0	0	0%
	Medium confidence	77	84	0	0	161	23.8%
	Low confidence	2	5	0	508	515	76.2%

The source of the species name record found in The Plant List for the genus Orobanche, are as follows: