Hail of the halo

Striga hallaei is a plant species from the genus Striga in the family of the summer flowering plants (Orobanchaceae). Edit source text

Striga hallaei is an evergreen, slender, unmanly, finely hairy, parasitic, annual plant with a 30 - 60cm high elevation. The stem is indistinctly square. The leaves are 40 to 70 × 12 (rarely to 30) mm in size, elliptically shaped, short stalked, roughly serrated and with three veins. They are standing and are shorter than the internodes.

The flowers stand alternately in an open grape-like inflorescence, which is shorter than the vegetative shoot. The flowers are accompanied by two leaves each, the lower leaves are 8 to 20 × 5 mm large, laub leaf-like, the leaves are reduced to the top. However, all the leaves are longer than the cup.

The calyx is five ribbed and 6 to 7 mm long. The calyx has a length of 2 mm and is equipped with five equally shaped, linear to lanceolate, 4 to 5 mm long lobes. The calyx is thus twice as long as the calyx. The crown is dyed in salmon. The corolla has a length of 22 to 25 mm, is bent, enlarged above the calyx and densely fine-haired. The lobes of the lower lip have a size of 17 × 30 mm and are broadly rounded. The upper lip is 12 × 15 mm wide, notched and turned backwards. Edit sourcetexttext

Striga hallaei is found in Gabon and the DR Congo and is growing there on clearings in rainforests. Edit sourcetext

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