Orobanche calendulaePomel

WFO wfo-0000388407 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 4 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 4 times, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.

Orobanche calendulae, photographed by Vicente Lopes
fig. a Vicente Lopes, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-05-14 / obs. 198673933
Orobanche calendulae, photographed by Vicente Lopes
fig. b Vicente Lopes, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 198673179
Orobanche calendulae, photographed by Vicente Lopes
fig. c Vicente Lopes, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 198673388
Orobanche calendulae, photographed by Vicente Lopes
fig. d Vicente Lopes, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 198675726
Orobanche calendulae, photographed by Vicente Lopes
fig. e Vicente Lopes, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 198673317
Orobanche calendulae, photographed by Vicente Lopes
fig. f Vicente Lopes, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 198675739
Orobanche calendulae, photographed by Vicente Lopes
fig. g Vicente Lopes, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 198673971
Orobanche calendulae, photographed by Vicente Lopes
fig. h Vicente Lopes, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 198673187

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Native range 6 botanical countries

Regions where Orobanche calendulae is native: Algeria, Madeira, Morocco, Tunisia, Portugal, Spain AlgeriaMoroccoTunisiaPortugalSpain Madeira
Native distribution of Orobanche calendulae, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows. Regions too small to draw at this scale are marked with a dot.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Algeria ALG AFRICA
Madeira MDR
Morocco MOR
Tunisia TUN
Portugal POR EUROPE
Spain SPA

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Also published as 12 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Orobanche almeriensis A.Pujadas
  • Orobanche artemisiae-campestris subsp. calendulae (Pomel) O.Bolòs, Vigo, Masalles & Ninot
  • Orobanche calendulae var. mauretanica (Beck) Maire
  • Orobanche mauretanica Beck
  • Orobanche mauretanica subsp. calendulae (Pomel) Cout.
  • Orobanche mauretanica subsp. helichrysi (J.A.Guim.) Cout.
  • Orobanche mauretanica subvar. helichrysi J.A.Guim.
  • Orobanche mauretanica subvar. xeroxantha J.A.Guim.
  • Orobanche mauretanica var. pogonia J.A.Guim.
  • Orobanche mauretanica var. reverchonii Willk.
  • Orobanche mauretanica var. welwitschii J.A.Guim.
  • Orobanche minor var. calendulae (Pomel) Batt. & Trab.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

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