Resumen de Phelipanche cernua Pomel (Orobanchaceae), a prioritary name for the western mediterranean species recently redescribed as Ph. inexpectata

Luis Carlón Ruiz, Manuel Laínz Gallo, Gonzalo Moreno Moral, Oscar Sánchez Pedraja

• The specific parasite of Lactuca (Compositae) described in 2005 from the Iberian Peninsula as Phelipanche inexspectata (Orobanchaceae) and known so far in northeastern Spain and southern France, is shown to also occur in mountain areas of northern Africa, where it had been previously described under the neglected name Phelipanche cernua. Given the recent proposal to consider the aforementioned Lactuca parasite a mere variant of Phelipanche schultzii, we stress the neat differences between both species.