Orobanche schultziiMutel

WFO wfo-0000387705 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 3 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 3 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 schultzii, photographed by Aissa Djamel Filali
fig. a Aissa Djamel Filali, CC BY-SA 4.0 / 2021-05-08 / obs. 127853169
Orobanche schultzii, photographed by Aissa Djamel Filali
fig. b Aissa Djamel Filali, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 127853478
Orobanche schultzii, photographed by Aissa Djamel Filali
fig. c Aissa Djamel Filali, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 127853705
Orobanche schultzii, photographed by Riccardo Rocca
fig. d Riccardo Rocca, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 195114287
Orobanche schultzii, photographed by Karim Haddad
fig. e Karim Haddad, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 73204902
Orobanche schultzii, photographed by Riccardo Rocca
fig. f Riccardo Rocca, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 195114326
Orobanche schultzii, photographed by Karim Haddad
fig. g Karim Haddad, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 73205051
Orobanche schultzii, photographed by Riccardo Rocca
fig. h Riccardo Rocca, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 195114364

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Native range 19 botanical countries

Regions where Orobanche schultzii is native: Algeria, Canary Is., Egypt, Libya, Morocco, Tunisia, Afghanistan, East Aegean Is., Iran, Lebanon-Syria, Palestine, Türkiye, France, Greece, Kriti, Portugal, Sardegna, Sicilia, Spain AlgeriaEgyptLibyaMoroccoTunisiaAfghanistanEast Aegean Is.IranLebanon-SyriaPalestineTürkiyeFranceGreeceKritiPortugalSiciliaSpain Canary Is.Sardegna
Native distribution of Orobanche schultzii, 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
France FRA EUROPE
Greece GRC
Kriti KRI
Portugal POR
Sardegna SAR
Sicilia SIC
Spain SPA
Algeria ALG AFRICA
Canary Is. CNY
Egypt EGY
Libya LBY
Morocco MOR
Tunisia TUN
Afghanistan AFG ASIA-TEMPERATE
East Aegean Is. EAI
Iran IRN
Lebanon-Syria LBS
Palestine PAL
Türkiye TUR

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 47 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low -0.6 °C 4.4 °C 9.5 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 26.1 °C 29.1 °C 32.2 °C
Annual rainfall 376 mm 671 mm 930 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 17 mm 53 mm 110 mm

It is found where winters bring light frost. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 47 research-grade observations of Orobanche schultzii 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 21 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 schultzii (Mutel) Bég.
  • Kopsia schultzii var. stricta (Moris ex Bertol.) Bég.
  • Kopsia stricta (Moris ex Bertol.) Caruel
  • Orobanche caerulea Moris
  • Orobanche schultzii f. pyramidalis (Reut.) Beck
  • Orobanche schultzii f. stricta (Moris ex Bertol.) Beck
  • Orobanche schultzii var. alexandrina Beck
  • Orobanche schultzii var. pyramidalis (Reut.) Beck
  • Orobanche schultzii var. stricta (Moris ex Bertol.) Fiori
  • Orobanche schwingenschussi Gilli
  • Orobanche schwingenschussii Gilli
  • Orobanche stricta Moris ex Bertol.
  • Orobanche trichocalyx f. lusitanica J.A.Guim
  • Phelipanche schultzii (Mutel) Pomel
  • Phelipanche schwingenschussii (Gilli) Holub
  • Phelypaea mutelii subsp. pulchra (Pomel) Batt.
  • Phelypaea pulchra Pomel
  • Phelypaea pyramidalis Reut.
  • Phelypaea rufescens Lojac.
  • Phelypaea schultzii (Mutel) Walp.
  • Phelypaea stricta (Moris ex Bertol.) Moris ex Reut.

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.