English: Purple ink flower; Purple ink plant.
African: Inkblom.
Genus: ± 40 species.
Region: South Africa, Eastern and Western Cape,
Madagascar, Yemen.
Habitat: fynbos, stony slopes, sandy flats.
Botany: annual herb; holoparasitic on the roots of shrubs and trees, on members of the
Campanulaceae, Roella and Wahlenbergia.
Flowers: large, showy, with scale-like leaves.