- Plants
- ›Vascular Plants
- ›flowering plants
- ›Dicots
- ›Mints, Plantains, Olives, and Allies
- ›broomrape family
- ›Orobancheae
Xylanche
Xylanche himalaica is a species of flowering plant in the family Orobanchaceae native to Asia. It was first formally named as Boschniakia himalaica in 1884 and transferred to the genus Xylanche in 1893. It is the only species in the genus Xylanche.
It is native to temperate and subalpine regions of the Himalayas, including China, Tibet, Taiwan, Bhutan, northern India, and Nepal. It parasitizes Rhododendron bushes in forested areas.
1 branches of this genus, most-observed first
See this branch on the Wheel of Life →
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
—
geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
Drag the globe to turn it. Dots are where records exist, not a range map; darker means more records.
In the stacks
Searching the stacks…
Every page naming Xylanche in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 576362.