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Melampyrum
Family: Orobanchaceae
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Vascular plants of NE US and adjacent Canada
Cal-tube cupulate, with 4(5) lobes, the upper slightly the longer; cor-tube longer than the lips, straight, slightly widened distally, the upper lip straight, very concave, truncate across the narrow summit between the 2 short teeth, the lower lip about equaling the upper, 3-lobed, with 2 low ridges below the sinuses; stamens 4, paired, included, ascending under the upper lip; pollen-sacs acute at base; stigma entire; fr flattened, obliquely ovate, pointed, loculicidal; seeds normally 4, ellipsoid or oblong; hemiparasitic annuals with opposite lvs, the small fls borne in the upper axils. 25, N. Hemisphere.

Gleason, Henry A. & Cronquist, Arthur J. 1991. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. lxxv + 910 pp.

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Melampyrum americanum
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Melampyrum arvense
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Melampyrum carpathicum
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Melampyrum cristatum
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Melampyrum latifolium
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Melampyrum lineare
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Melampyrum nemorosum
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Melampyrum pratense
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Melampyrum roseum
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Melampyrum silesiacum
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Melampyrum subalpinum
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Melampyrum sylvaticum
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