Biennial or perennial (?), usually simple with short, subrounded, thickened base; spikes up to 20 cm long; bracts shorter to nearly equalling the calyx, lanceolate; bracteoles free, linear, ± as long as the calyx. Calyx ± shorter than the corolla-tube; segments or teeth longer than the tube, subulate-filiform. Corolla 18-20 mm long, tubulose, erect to slightly curved, puberulous, villaceous, somewhat constricted above the ovary at the insertion point of stamens, slightly inflated below; lobes short, subrounded, obtuse, densely ciliate at the margins. Capsule 6-7 mm long, ovoid, stigma hardly bilobed, short.

Fl.Per.: June July.

Type: Caria, Pinard (W).

Distribution: Mediterranean region, Turkey to Iran, Pakistan and C. Asia.

Very much like Orobanche hirtiflora (Reut.) Burkill, but flowers violet, smaller with short, obtuse or subrounded corolla lobes.