Orobanche nanaNoë ex Rchb.

WFO wfo-0001089275 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Orobanche nana, photographed by Meghan Cassidy
fig. a Meghan Cassidy, CC BY-SA 4.0 / 2022-04-30 / obs. 193725565
Orobanche nana, photographed by Michelle W. （鍾偉瑋）
fig. b Michelle W. （鍾偉瑋）, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 194233955
Orobanche nana, photographed by Reid Hardin
fig. c Reid Hardin, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 187207637
Orobanche nana, photographed by John Lyden
fig. d John Lyden, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 186074979
Orobanche nana, photographed by Michelle W. （鍾偉瑋）
fig. e Michelle W. （鍾偉瑋）, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 185434586
Orobanche nana, photographed by Riccardo Rocca
fig. f Riccardo Rocca, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 182873766
Orobanche nana, photographed by Eleftherios Katsillis
fig. g Eleftherios Katsillis, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 115648438
Orobanche nana, photographed by Eleftherios Katsillis
fig. h Eleftherios Katsillis, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 114848731

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The specimen a real sheet, in a real collection

Herbarium
The New York Botanical Garden
Accession
05144880
Filed as
Orobanche nana Noë ex Reut.
Det. by
not recorded on this sheet
Collected
not recorded
Origin
not recorded
The sheet
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Native range 31 botanical countries

Regions where Orobanche nana is native: Algeria, Canary Is., Egypt, Libya, Madeira, Morocco, Tunisia, Afghanistan, Cyprus, East Aegean Is., Iran, Iraq, Lebanon-Syria, North Caucasus, Sinai, Transcaucasus, Türkiye, Albania, Bulgaria, Corse, France, Greece, Italy, Kriti, Krym, NW. Balkan Pen., Portugal, Sardegna, Sicilia, Spain, Türkiye-in-Europe AlgeriaEgyptLibyaMoroccoTunisiaAfghanistanCyprusEast Aegean Is.IranIraqLebanon-SyriaNorth CaucasusSinaiTranscaucasusTürkiyeAlbaniaBulgariaCorseFranceGreeceItalyKritiKrymNW. Balkan Pen.PortugalSiciliaSpainTürkiye-in-Europe Canary Is.MadeiraSardegna
Native distribution of Orobanche nana, 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
Albania ALB EUROPE
Bulgaria BUL
Corse COR
France FRA
Greece GRC
Italy ITA
Kriti KRI
Krym KRY
NW. Balkan Pen. YUG
Portugal POR
Sardegna SAR
Sicilia SIC
Spain SPA
Türkiye-in-Europe TUE
Afghanistan AFG ASIA-TEMPERATE
Cyprus CYP
East Aegean Is. EAI
Iran IRN
Iraq IRQ
Lebanon-Syria LBS
North Caucasus NCS
Sinai SIN
Transcaucasus TCS
Türkiye TUR
Algeria ALG AFRICA
Canary Is. CNY
Egypt EGY
Libya LBY
Madeira MDR
Morocco MOR
Tunisia TUN

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.

Where it actually grows measured, from 2,017 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low 1.2 °C 6.3 °C 11.4 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 23.1 °C 29.0 °C 34.9 °C
Annual rainfall 465 mm 803 mm 1,168 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 8 mm 62 mm 212 mm

It is found where winters are cool but frost is light or absent. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 2,017 research-grade observations of Orobanche nana that carry a coordinate, and this is the range those places actually span. The 5th and 95th percentiles are used rather than the minimum and maximum, because a single cultivated specimen in a heated conservatory should not widen a tropical plant's range to the Arctic.

This is not a hardiness zone. A USDA zone is the average annual extreme minimum temperature. The figure above is the mean daily minimum of the coldest month, which is a different quantity and is typically far warmer. Reading one as the other would place a plant several zones too warm, so we do not publish a hardiness zone, because we do not have one.

Also published as 26 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.

  • Kopsia nana (Noë ex Rchb.) Freyn
  • Kopsia ramosa var. nana (Noë ex Rchb.) Bég.
  • Orobanche melitensis Beck
  • Orobanche mutelii var. nana (Noë ex Rchb.) Reut.
  • Orobanche nana f. intercedens Beck
  • Orobanche nana f. manostachys Beck
  • Orobanche nana subsp. melitensis Beck
  • Orobanche nana var. inestabilis J.A.Guim.
  • Orobanche ramosa subsp. nana (Reut.) Cout.
  • Orobanche ramosa subsp. nana (Noë ex Rchb.) Rouy
  • Orobanche ramosa var. inaspecta Menezes
  • Orobanche ramosa var. lanata Boiss.
  • Orobanche ramosa var. nana (Noë ex Rchb.) Bég.
  • Orobanche ramosa var. simplex Rchb.
  • Phelipanche mutelii f. manostachys (Beck) Uhlich & Rätzel
  • Phelipanche mutelii var. nana (Reut.) Uhlich & Rätzel
  • Phelipanche nana (Noë ex Rchb.) Soják
  • Phelipanche nana subsp. melitensis (Beck) Soják
  • Phelipanche pulchra Pomel
  • Phelypaea mutelii subsp. nana (Noë ex Rchb.) Batt.
  • Phelypaea mutelii var. nana (Noë ex Rchb.) Reut.
  • Phelypaea nana (Noë ex Rchb.) Rchb.f.
  • Phelypaea nana f. robusta Cadevall
  • Phelypaea ramosa subsp. nana (Noë ex Rchb.) Rouy

and 2 more.

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.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.