Kirk's Tobacco Witchweed

orobanchoides: resembling the genus Orobanche

Erect hemiparasitic herb, up to 45 cm tall. Stems branching near the base, often blackish or purple-red and fleshy. Leaves small, usually less than 1 cm long, appressed and scale-like or spreading near the inflorescences, lanceolate-oblong to ovate-oblong. Flowers in the axils of leaves or leaf-like bracts, together forming a spike-like inflorescence, yellow to orange, often with dark purple-red lines.

Angola, Botswana, Namibia, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda