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{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Orobanche vallicola
|accepted_authority=(Jepson) Heckard
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Madroño
|place=22: 64. 1973
|year=1973
}}
|common_names=Hillside broomrape
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=E
|label=Endemic
}}
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Orobanche comosa var. vallicola
|authority=Jepson
|publication_title=Man. Fl. Pl. Calif.,
|publication_place=952. 1925
}}
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Aphyllon vallicola
|authority=(Jepson) A. C. Schneider
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=O. californica var. claremontensis
|authority=Munz
}}
|hierarchy=Orobanchaceae;Orobanche;Orobanche vallicola
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Orobanchaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Orobanche]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Orobanche vallicola]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 17
|mention_page=page 470, 488
|treatment_page=page 487
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>simple or few-branched, 7–40 cm, stout, base usually enlarged. <b>Roots</b> usually inconspicuous, slender, branched or unbranched. <b>Leaves</b> numerous, erect; blade broadly triangular proximally, grading to lanceolate distally, 7–10 mm, margins entire, apex obtuse, acute on distal leaves, surfaces glabrous. <b>Inflorescences</b> racemes, sometimes spikelike, pink, lavender, or yellow, sometimes branched, glandular-puberulent; flowers numerous; bracts usually reflexed toward tips, narrowly triangular to lanceolate-linear or subulate, 5–10 mm, apex attenuate, glandular-puberulent. <b>Pedicels</b> 5–25 mm, much shorter than plant axis; bracteoles 2. <b>Flowers</b>: calyx pale or pinkish tinged, ± radially symmetric, (6–)9–15(–20) mm, deeply divided into 5 lobes, lobes narrowly subulate, glandular-puberulent; corolla 17–28(–33) mm, tube white to pale yellow or pale pink, slightly constricted above ovary, straight or slightly bent forward, sparsely glandular-pubescent or glabrate; palatal folds prominent, yellow, glabrous; lips white to pale pink, often with darker pink veins, abaxial lip usually widely spreading, 5–9(–10) mm, lobes narrowly oblong-triangular to lanceolate, apex acute, adaxial lip usually widely spreading, 5–9(–10) mm, lobes triangular or triangular-ovate, apex acute; filaments glabrous, anthers included, glabrous or ± villous along sutures. <b>Capsules</b> ovoid to cylindric-ovoid, 10–13 mm. <b>Seeds</b> 0.4–0.5 mm.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering (Mar–)May–Nov.
|habitat=Woodlands, thickets, openings, lowland valleys and foothills.
|elevation=0–400 m.
|distribution=Calif.
|discussion=<p><i>Orobanche vallicola</i> is rare but occurs occasionally in widely scattered localities in cismontane California from Trinity County south to Los Angeles County.</p><!--
--><p>The most frequently reported host for <i>Orobanche vallicola</i> is Sambucus (Adoxaceae), but <i>O. vallicola</i> has also been reported on <i>Baccharis douglasii</i> and <i>Ericameria nauseosa</i> (<i>Asteraceae</i>), <i>Pyrus</i> (<i>Rosaceae</i>), <i>Quercus agrifolia</i> (Fagaceae), and Symphoricarpos albus (Caprifoliaceae) (L. R. Heckard 1973).</p>
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Orobanche vallicola
|author=
|authority=(Jepson) Heckard
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Aphyllon vallicola;O. californica var. claremontensis
|basionyms=Orobanche comosa var. vallicola
|family=Orobanchaceae
|phenology=Flowering (Mar–)May–Nov.
|habitat=Woodlands, thickets, openings, lowland valleys and foothills.
|elevation=0–400 m.
|distribution=Calif.
|reference=None
|publication title=Madroño
|publication year=1973
|special status=Endemic
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/f6b125a955440c0872999024f038d74684f65921/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V17/V17_832.xml
|genus=Orobanche
|species=Orobanche vallicola
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