Orobanchaceae

O. anatolica Boiss. & Reuter in DC, Prodr. 11:17 (1847). Syn: O. alba sensu C. Koch in Linnaea 22 :663 (1849) non Stephan (1800); O. leucopogon Boiss. & Hausskn. in Boiss., Fl. Or. 4:504 (1879).
Stem 15-35 cm, thick. Spike many-flowered, usually very dense (base excepted). Bracts equalling or longer than flowers, abundantly white-pilose or villous. Calyx halves bidentate, teeth broad, acuminate, with 3-5 thick veins, glandular-pilose, ciliate-pilose at margin, equalling or longer than corolla tube. Corolla ventricose-inflated above insertion of stamens, enlarged towards throat, densely glandular-pilose outside and inside throat, lanate-pilose on upper lip, red-brown, tinged with pink (Balls), yellow or ginger-orange with a reddish callous between petal lobes, buff with a lilac tube (Davis), dark brown in dry state ; whole dorsal line curved, upper lip more curved and helmet-shaped, undivided, limb long ciliate-pilose or whitish-lanate. Stamens inserted 3-4 mm above corolla base, anthers long-mucronate. Style glabrous; stigma glandular-pilose, yellow or whitish. Fl 4-7. On Salvia 410-2500 m.
Syntypes: [Turkey C2 Denizli] monte Cadmo (Honaz Da.) supra Colos-sam (Honaz), Boissier (G); [C2] in Cariae montibus, 1843, Pinard (G); [C2 Burdur] prope Bouldour, 1845, A. von Heldreich (G).
N. Turkey, S. & Inner Anatolia. A2(E) Istanbul: Yildiz parki, A. Baytop (ISTE 10509)! A3 Bolu: Ala Da., 2100-2200 m, D. 37354! A4 Kastamonu: Bostanli, 1300 m, Sorger 69-14-75! A6 Sivas: 26 km W. of Suşehri, 1600-1700 m, Sorger 69-34-22! A8 Erzurum: nr Ispir, vi 1853, Huet(!). B4 Konya : Akşehir, lower part of Sultan Da., 1100 m, Bornm. 1899:5401. B5 Kırşehir:
40 km S.W. of Çiçekdaği Pass (Yerköy), 900 m, Sorgeı 70-12-10! B6 Sivas: 18 km S. of Zara, 1500 m, Sorger 69-37-37! B7 Sivas: d. Divriği, Dumluca Da., A. Baytop (ISTE 12965)! B9 Bitlis: Pelli Da., 2500 m, D. 22442! C2 Antalya: Kuhu Da., Fitz 1969:790! C3 Antalya: Monastir Çay, 410 m, Bozakman & Fitz 1970:189! C4 Içel: Sandana Orman nr Anamur, 1300 m, Çetik et al. (ANK 4924). C5 Niğde: Hasan Da, above Taşpinar, 1300 m, D. 18905! C6 Maraş: Ahir Da., 850 m, Balls 915! C7 Adıyaman.: d. Kahta, Nemrut Da. at Urik, 1200-1400 m, Hand.-Mazz. 2132. C8 Mardin: 5 km E. of Mardin, 1200 m, D. 28590!
Caucasia, Syrian Desert, N. Iraq, N. & W. Iran. Beck (op. cit. 275 1890) examined Koch's original gathering, which was later re-identified by Koch as O. alba Stephan (in Linnaea 22:663, 1849).