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Byng, J.W. (2014) The Flowering Plants Handbook Plant Gateway Limited, Hertford, UK
Perennial, biennial or annual herbs, subshrubs or shrubs; usually root-hemiparasites (with chlorophyll) or holoparasites (without chlorophyll). Leaves simple, opposite or alternate (spiral), scale-like in holoparasites; margins entire, toothed or deeply lobed. Venation pinnate or palmate. Inflorescence of racemes, spikes or rarely solitary flowers. Flowers bisexual, zygomorphic. Sepals fused. Petals fused, imbricate, 2-lipped; upper lip 2-lobed, lower lip 3-lobed. Ovary superior; carpels fused. Seed a loculicidal or septicidal capsule, rarely a drupe, berry or schizocarp. Worldwide: c. 98 genera and 2000 species, more or less cosmopolitan but especially in temperate Eurasia, tropical Africa, North America and South America, Australia and New Zealand. Malawi: 13 genera and 59 taxa. |
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| Genus | Content |
| Alectra Thunb. | Description |
| Buchnera L. | Description |
| Cycnium E. Mey. ex Benth. | Description |
| Gerardiina Engl. | Description, Image |
| Graderia Benth. | Description |
| Harveya Hook. | Description |
| Hedbergia Molau | Description |
| Melasma P.J. Bergius | Description |
| Micrargeria Benth. | Description |
| Orobanche L. | Description |
| Rhamphicarpa Benth. | Description, Image |
| Sopubia Buch-Ham. ex D. Don | Description, Image |
| Striga Lour. | Description, Image |
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