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Cycnium is a genus of flowering plants in the family Orobanchaceae. Its native range is tropical and southern Africa and Madagascar.
Plants in this genus are annual or perennial hemiparasitic herbs or small shrubs that turn black when they die. Leaves usually occur opposite or near-opposite, but occasionally alternate or in whorls of three. Leaves may pinnatisect or bipinnatisect, with incised or entire margins, and may be sessile or shortly petiolate. Flowers may be terminally spicate or racemose, solitary-axillary, or supra-axillary. Flowers are edicellate to sessile or subsessile. Bracts are leaf-like. In species in which they are present, bracteoles are inserted on the pedicel or are adnate to the base of the calyx tube. The tube-ridged calyx has 4–5 lobes which are equal or subequal. The corolla is 5-lobed and salver-form.
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