Nanban-giselu (Nanban tobacco pipe) - Nanban-giselu (English spelling) Aeginetia indica

Japanese: ナンバンギセル(南蛮煙管) - ナンバンギセル（英語表記）Aeginetia indica

An annual plant of the Orobanchaceae family. It is widely distributed from the tropics to the temperate zones of eastern Asia, and grows in grasslands throughout Japan. It parasitizes the roots of plants such as Miscanthus and ginger, lacks chloroplasts, and has short stems that rarely emerge above ground. In summer, it produces a yellowish-brown flower stalk about 20 cm tall, and flowers with boat-shaped, reddish-brown calyxes, 3-4 cm long, and 1 cm in diameter, bloom sideways, with a pale purple-pink corolla. After flowering, it produces an ovoid capsule that produces a large number of small seeds. A similar but larger species, A. sinensis , is found in warm areas of western Japan, the Ogasawara Islands, and Okinawa, and parasitizes herbs of the Poaceae and Cyperaceae families. It was named after the shape of its flower.

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Japanese:

ハマウツボ科の一年草。アジア東部の熱帯から温帯に広く分布し，日本各地の草原に生じる。ススキ，ショウガなどの根に寄生し，全体に葉緑体を欠き，茎は短くほとんど地上に出ない。夏に，高さ 20cmぐらいの黄褐色の花茎を出し，舟形で赤褐色の萼をもつ長さ3～4cm，径 1cmほどの淡紫紅色の花冠の花が横向きに咲く。花後に卵球形の蒴果を生じ，大量の細かな種子ができる。西日本の暖地や小笠原諸島，沖縄などには本種に似ているが大型のオオナンバンギセル A. sinensisがあってイネ科やカヤツリグサ科の草本に寄生する。花の形からこの名がつけられた。

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