English: Broomrape family.
DD: Fluorine,
Phosphorus,
Silver series,
Lanthanides.
Botany: 90 genera; 2000 species; temperate; Eurasia, North America, South America, Australia, New Zealand, tropical Africa; herbs, shrubs; holoparasitic or hemiparasitic, parasitic, semi-parasitic; lack chlorophyll; yellowish, brownish, purplish, or white; leaves fleshy, sessile scales; flowers in racemes or spikes or singly at the apex of the slender stem; placentation parietal; fruit capsule, dry, dehiscent, 1 locular; seeds minute, endospermic, wind dispersed.
TaxonomyIn the
Apg3 classification Orobanchaceae is a
Family in
Lamiales. In the older taxonomies the members of
Orobanchaceae was a small
Family in older taxonomies. Quite some members of the former
Scrophulariaceae have been transferred to this family, for instance Euphrasia.
In the
Plant theory Verbenales is split off from
Lamiales.
Orobanchaceae is placed in
Subphase 7 in
Lamiales, being a family of parasites and half parasites.