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|accepted_name=Boschniakia
|accepted_authority=C. A. Meyer ex Bongard
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Mém. Acad. Imp. Sci. Saint-Pétersbourg, Sér.
|place=6, Sci. Math. 2: 159. 1832
|year=1832
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|common_names=Ground-cone
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Orobanchaceae;Boschniakia
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Orobanchaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Boschniakia]]</div></div>
|etymology=For Alexander Karlovich Boschniak, 1786–1831, Russian botanist
|volume=Volume 17
|mention_page=page 457, 463, 465
|treatment_page=page 460
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Herbs,</b> monocarpic perennial; achlorophyllous, holoparasitic, with rhizomelike vegetative structure, surfaces tessellate or with irregular scaly plates, roots absent. <b>Stems</b> erect, fleshy, glabrous. <b>Leaves</b> cauline, spiral, proximally imbricate, less so distally; petiole absent; blade stiffly chartaceous, margins entire. <b>Inflorescences</b> terminal, dense spikes; bracts present. <b>Pedicels</b> absent; bracteoles absent. <b>Flowers</b>: sepals 4 or 5, calyx bilaterally symmetric, cup-shaped, lobes triangular-acuminate; petals 5, corolla dark red or dark purple, strongly bilabiate, cucullate, short-tubular, palatal folds absent, abaxial lobes 0 or 3, adaxial 2, adaxial lip entire or with shallow notch; stamens 4, didynamous, included, filaments glabrous; staminode 0; ovary 1-locular, placentation parietal; stigma 2–4-lobed, broadly clavate-crateriform or nearly capitate. <b>Capsules</b>: dehiscence loculicidal. <b>Seeds</b> 2000–2500, light tan or brown, irregularly columnar or oblong-ellipsoid, wings absent.</span><!--

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|distribution=nw North America;Asia (Bhutan;China;Nepal;Russian Far East).
|discussion=<p>Species 2 (1 in the flora).</p><!--
--><p><i>Boschniakia</i> has not been well studied using modern systematic techniques. The overall relationship of the genera of holoparasites in Orobanchaceae is currently under review.</p><!--
--><p><i>Boschniakia</i> himalaica Hooker f. & Thomson is distributed in southern China and the Himalayan countries of Asia. It is parasitic on species of <i>Rhododendron</i>.</p>
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|references={{Treatment/Reference
|id=zhang1987a
|text=Zhang, Zhi Y. 1987. A taxonomic study of the genus Boschniakia. Acta Bot. Yunnan. 9: 289–296.
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name=Boschniakia
|author=L. Turner Collins;Alison E. L. Colwell;George Yatskievych
|authority=C. A. Meyer ex Bongard
|rank=genus
|parent rank=family
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Orobanchaceae
|illustrator=John Myers
|illustration copyright=Flora of North America Association
|distribution=nw North America;Asia (Bhutan;China;Nepal;Russian Far East).
|reference=zhang1987a
|publication title=Mém. Acad. Imp. Sci. Saint-Pétersbourg, Sér.
|publication year=1832
|special status=
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|genus=Boschniakia
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