Striga  hermonthica (Delile) Benth.

Striga hermonthica (Del.) Benth. , Companion Bot. Mag. 1(12): 365 (1836).

Buchnera hermonthica Delile

S. hermonthica is annual chlorophyllous plant grows up to 80 cm with hairy, hard guardrangle-shaped and fibrous stem, narrow leaf, and spike-shaped raceme inflorescence bearing up to 60 flowers for the terminal and 10 ~ 20 for the lateral inflorescence with bright pink, rose-red, white, or yellow color (Musselman, 1980). The root system in Striga is vestigial, in which the germinated seed radical produces haustorium instead of characteristic angiosperm root in order to interact with the host. The seeds are very tiny range between 0.15 ~ 0.3 mm in diameter