Orobanche aegyptiaca

Egyptian Broomrape
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
(unranked):	Angiosperms
(unranked):	Eudicots
(unranked):	Asterids
Order:	Lamiales
Family:	Orobanchaceae
Genus:	Orobanche
Species:	O. aegyptiaca
Binomial name
Orobanche aegyptiaca Pers.

Egyptian Broomrape (Orobanche aegyptiaca Pers.) is a plant from the family Orobanchaceae.

Selective control of Egyptian broomrape is extremely difficult because the close association between host crop and parasite limits the use of most mechanical and herbicidal approaches.^[1]

Egyptian broomrape together with Sunflower broomrape (Orobanche cumana Wallr.) is known in Eurasia as a specific parasite of sunflower, which differs from the nodding broomrape (O. cernua Loefl) in host specificity and morphological characteristics. Egyptian broomrape seriously parasitizes sunflowers (Helianthus annuus L.).^[2]

References

1. ^ CAB Abstracts
2. ^ Plant Disease Note 2004 | First Report of a New Race of Sunflower Broomrape (Orobanche cumana) in Israel