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Vestigial Plastids in Parasitic Plants: Evolutionary Remnants or Adaptive Innovations?

Plant, Cell &Environment, Volume 49, Issue 8, Page 5401-5420, August 2026.
ABSTRACT Throughout the evolutionary history of plants, chloroplasts originating from a cyanobacterial endosymbiosis have undergone remarkable adaptation and specialization, giving rise to a multitude of plastid types. The evolution toward parasitism in plants represents a particularly extreme case of such specialization.
Laia Jené, Sergi Munné‐Bosch
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FAMILIA OROBANCHACEAE

Flora del Bajío y de Regiones Adyacentes, 1998
Familia relacionada con las Gesneriaceae y sobre todo con las Scrophulariaceae. Cuenta con unos 15 géneros y más de 150 especies, distribuidas principalmente en las regiones templadas del Viejo Mundo. Existen unos cuantos géneros en América; en la zona de estudio se distinguen dos.
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Plant species diversification in the Himalaya–Hengduan Mountains region: an example from an endemic lineage of Pedicularis (Orobanchaceae) in the role of floral specializations and rapid range expansions

Cladistics
The c. 270 endemic species of Pedicularis in the Himalaya–Hengduan Mountains (HHM) region exhibit high diversity in geographic distribution, elevational range and floral morphology.
Rong Liu, Wei-Jia Wang, Hong Wang, Richard H. Ree, De‐Zhu Li, Wen-bin Yu   +5 more
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Morphological diversity of pistil stigmas and its taxonomic significance of representatives of holoparasitic Orobanchaceae from Central Europe

PhytoKeys, 2022
Abstract The stigma is the terminal part of the carpel which receives pollen during the pollination process. Although the role of the stigmas in pollination is the same for all angiosperms, stigmas structures are very diverse.
K. Ruraż, R. Piwowarczyk
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Stoichiometric mismatches between Australian showy mistletoes and their hosts: You are what you assimilate

Ecosphere, Volume 17, Issue 7, July 2026.
Abstract Ecological stoichiometry emphasizes that mismatches between the elemental composition of organisms and their resources can shape ecological interactions, evolutionary trajectories, and nutrient cycling. For hemiparasitic plants such as mistletoes, which draw water and nutrients from hosts while maintaining their own photosynthesis, such ...
Luis Y. Santiago‐Rosario, Kyle E. Harms, Sarah Mathews   +2 more
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A taxonomic monograph of the Eurasian holoparasitic plant genus Lathraea L. (Orobanchaceae)

Phytotaxa
A taxonomic monograph is presented for Lathraea L. (Orobanchaceae), a genus of holoparasitic plants distributed across Europe and Asia. Plants in this genus are characterised by their underground stems, achlorophyllous scales with internal gland-lined ...
S. Hatt, S. Tsiftsis, C. Thorogood
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Recent advances in Broomrapes research [PDF]

Journal of BioScience and Biotechnology, 2012
Orobanchaceae (broomrapes) is a morphologically diverse family of predominantly herbaceous, parasitic plants. The majority of species are facultative or obligate root parasites that subsist on broad-leaf plants, thereby depleting them of nutrients ...
MARIA GEVEZOVA, TEODORA DEKALSKA, KIRIL STOYANOV, TSVETA HRISTEVA, KALOYAN KOSTOV, ROSSITZA BATCHVAROVA, ILIYA DENEV   +6 more
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Alpine flora of Kashmir Himalaya: floristic assessment, life history traits and threat status

Nordic Journal of Botany, Volume 2026, Issue 7, July 2026.
Alpine ecosystems in the Himalaya are considered to be at a higher risk to anthropogenic global change drivers. The Kashmir Himalaya, located in the north‐western side of the Himalayan biodiversity hotspot, harbors a diverse alpine flora, which remains systematically little investigated.
Bilal A. Rasray, Showkeen A. Lone, Rameez Ahmad, Tajamul Islam, Hitendra Padalia, Anzar Ahmad Khuroo   +5 more
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A new species of Phtheirospermum (Orobanchaceae) from Mizoram, an Indo–Burma biodiversity hotspot in India

Phytotaxa
A new species of the genus Phtheirospermum (Orobanchaceae) is described and illustrated from Mizoram, an Indo–Burma biodiversity hotspot in India. Detailed description, digital photographs, comparison of morphological characters with closely allied ...
R. Sengupta, S. S. Dash
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Pedicularis hoermanniana and Petasites kablikianus, new species in the flora of the Republic of Macedonia [PDF]

Botanica Serbica, 2018
This paper reports the first finding of two native species in the flora of the Republic of Macedonia, namely Pedicularis hoermanniana (Orobanchaceae) and Petasites kablikianus (Asteraceae). Both species were found on Mt.
Teofilovski Aco
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