Flora of Israel: Orobanche mutelii

Orobanche mutelii, Phelipanche mutelii, Dwarf Broomrape, Mutel’s Broomrape,

Hebrew: עלקת מוטל, Arabic: هالوك جعفيل


Scientific name:		Orobanche mutelii F.W.Schultz
Synonym name:		Phelipanche mutelii (F.W. Schultz) Pomel
Common name:		Dwarf Broomrape, Mutel’s Broomrape
Hebrew name:		עלקת מוטל
Arabic name:		هالوك جعفيل
Family:		Orobanchaceae, Broomrape family, עלקתיים

_{Location: Achu Binyamina}


Life form:		Parasite
Stems:		Usually branched, 10-30cm
Leaves:		Alternate, scale
Inflorescence:		2-25cm
Flowers:		Numerous flowers; calyx teeth acuminate, about equalling the tube; corolla 15-22mm, violet, lobes of lower lib obtuse; anthers glabrous or hairy.
Fruits / pods:		Capsule 6-7mm
Flowering Period:		March, April, May
Habitat:		Batha, Phrygana
Distribution:		Mediterranean Woodlands and Shrublands, Semi-steppe shrublands, Shrub-steppes, Deserts and extreme deserts, Montane vegetation of Mt. Hermon
Chorotype:		Med – Irano-Turanian
Summer shedding:		Ephemeral

_{Location: Achu Binyamina}
Derivation of the botanical name:

Orobanche, Greek orobos, a kind of vetch; anchone, choke, strangle; this was the Greek name of a plant that was parasitic on vetch.

mutelii,dedicated to the French botanist Pierre Auguste Victor Mutel (1795 – 1847)
Phelipanche from the greek “phelos φηλος” deceiver, thief and “ancho ἄγχω” strangle, suffocate.
broomrape, broom +‎ rape, part translation of species name Orobanche rapum-genistae, where Latin rapum actually means turnip, not rape. Broomrape, any of various plants, of the genus Orobanche, that are parasitic on the roots of other plants.
The Hebrew name: Alkat, עלקת, is derived from the name of the parasitic animal leech, עלוקה, aluka.

The standard author abbreviation F.W.Schultz is used to indicate Friedrich Wilhelm Schultz (1804 – 1876), a German pharmacist and botanist.
The standard author abbreviation Pomel is used to indicate Auguste Pomel (1821 – 1898), a French geologist and paleontologist.

_{Location: Achu Binyamina}