title: Alectra (plant)
text: # Alectra (plant)
  
  Alectra is a genus of flowering plants in the family Orobanchaceae. It comprises hemiparasitic species which occur in tropical and southern Africa, including Madagascar, and tropical and subtropical Asia.
  
  ## Systematics
  
  The genera Alectra comprises the following species.
  
  * Alectra alectroides (S.Moore) Melch.
  * Alectra atrosanguinea (Hiern) Hemsl.
  * Alectra aurantiaca Hemsl.
  * Alectra avensis (Benth.) Merr.
  * Alectra bainesii Hemsl.
  * Alectra basserei Berhaut
  * Alectra basutica (E.Phillips) Melch.
  * Alectra capensis Thunb.
  * Alectra dolichocalyx Philcox
  * Alectra dunensis Hilliard & B.L.Burtt
  * Alectra fruticosa Eb.Fisch.
  * Alectra glandulosa Philcox
  * Alectra gracilis S.Moore
  * Alectra hildebrandtii Eb.Fisch.
  * Alectra hirsuta Klotzsch
  * Alectra humbertii Eb.Fisch.
  * Alectra lancifolia Hemsl.
  * Alectra linearis Hepper
  * Alectra lurida Harv.
  * Alectra natalensis (Hiern) Melch.
  * Alectra orobanchoides Benth. syn. A. parvifolia (Engl.) Schinz
  * Alectra parasitica A.Rich.
  * Alectra picta (Hiern) Hemsl.
  * Alectra pseudobarleriae (Dinter) Dinter
  * Alectra pubescens Philcox
  * Alectra pumila Benth.
  * Alectra rigida (Hiern) Hemsl.
  * Alectra schoenfelderi Dinter & Melch.
  * Alectra sessiliflora (Vahl) Kuntze
  * Alectra stolzii Engl.
  * Alectra thyrsoidea Melch.
  * Alectra virgata Hemsl.
  * Alectra vogelii Benth.
  
  Alectra pedicularioides Baker from Madagascar was moved to Pseudomelasma pedicularioides (Baker) Eb.Fisch. in 1996.
  
  