Taxon: Striga hermonthica (Delile) Benth.

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A declared noxious weed by USDA-APHIS (as Striga spp.).

Common names:

• purple witchweed   (Source: AH 505 ) – English
  

Economic importance:

• Weed: parasite   (on sorghum and wild grasses fide Atlas WWeed; F Zamb)
  
• Weed: potential seed contaminant   (fide Atlas WWeed; F Zamb)
  

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Distributional range:

• AFRICA
  Northern Africa: Egypt
  Northeast Tropical Africa: Chad; Djibouti; Eritrea; Ethiopia; Somalia; Sudan
  East Tropical Africa: Kenya; Tanzania; Uganda
  West-Central Tropical Africa: Cameroon; Central African Republic; Congo; Rwanda; Zaire
  West Tropical Africa: Burkina Faso; Cote D'Ivoire; Gambia; Ghana; Guinea; Guinea-Bissau; Mali; Niger; Nigeria; Senegal; Togo
  South Tropical Africa: Angola; Mozambique
  Southern Africa: Namibia
  Western Indian Ocean: Madagascar
• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Arabian Peninsula: Arabia; Saudi Arabia [w.]; Yemen

• naturalized elsewhere

References:

• Boudet, G. et al. 1986. Catalogue des plantes vasculaires du Mali.
• Boulos, L. 1995. Flora of Egypt checklist.
• Brunel, J. F. et al., eds. 1984. Flore analytique du Togo. Phanerogames.
• Cufodontis, G. 1953–1972. Enumeratio plantarum aethiopiae: Spermatophyta. ["hermontica"].
• Exell, A. W. et al., eds. 1960–. Flora zambesiaca.
• Gibbs Russell, G. E. et al. 1985. List of species of Southern African plants, ed. 2. Mem. Bot. Surv. S. Africa v. 51.; v. 56. 1987
• Holm, L. et al. 1979. A geographical atlas of world weeds.
• Keay, R. W. J. & F. N. Hepper. 1953–1972. Flora of west tropical Africa, ed. 2. ["hermontheca"].
• Merxmüller, H., ed. 1966–1972. Prodromus einer flora von Sudwestafrika.
• Migahid, A. M. 1988–1990. Flora of Saudi Arabia, ed. 3.
• Mohamed, K. I. et al. 2001. The genus Striga (Scrophulariaceae) in Africa. Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 88:85–86.
• Musselman, L. J. & F. N. Hepper. 1986. The witchweeds (Striga, Scrophulariaceae) of the Sudan Republic. Kew Bull. 41:216.
• Terrell, E. E. et al. 1986. Agric. Handb. no. 505.
• Turrill, W. B. et al., eds. 1952–. Flora of tropical East Africa.
• Wood, J. R. I. 1997. A handbook of the flora of Yemen.

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Synonyms:

• (≡) Buchnera hermonthica Delile (basionym)
  
• (=) Striga senegalensis Benth.
  

Check other web resources for Striga hermonthica (Delile) Benth.:

• SIBIS: South African National Biodiversity Institute's (SANBI) Integrated Biodiversity System
• ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
• Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.

Check other web resources for images:

• PlantSystematics.org
• Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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