Cowpea Witchweed

Description

Striga gesnerioides is a 12 to 30 cm tall, parasitic , annual or occasionally perennial . It grows unbroken or branched at the base, is usually succulent and dries brown or black. It is sparse to tight-stiff-hair or hairy-haired. The stem is three-dimensional or indistinctly quadrangular. The leaves have a size of 4 to 10 - 1 to 3 mm, are lanceolate, all-round and are representational or nearly representable. They are scaly like, adjoining, are shorter than the internodes, and have an indistinct vein. The flowers are juxtaposed or almost representable in a simple spike-like inflorescence , which can be longer or shorter than the vegetative shoot. The flowers are accompanied by two leaves each, which are 2.5 to 6 - 2 to 3 mm large, lanceolate shaped and longer or even shorter than the cup .