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Cuscuta abyssinica

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Name

Identification
Cuscuta abyssinica Not on sheet. [family CONVOLVULACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Beliz, T.,
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Flora

Entry for CUSCUTA abyssinica Rich. [family CONVOLVULACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol IV, Part 2, page 62, (1905) Author: (By J. G. Baker and A. B. Rendle.)
Names
CUSCUTA abyssinica Rich. [family CONVOLVULACEAE], Tent. Fl. Abyss. ii. 78. —Engelm. in Trans. Acad. Sci. St. Louis, i. 464.
CUSCUTA hyalina Vatke [family CONVOLVULACEAE], in Linnæa, xliii. 525, and Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 351 not of Roth.
Information
Stem slender, branched. Heads sessile, dense, globose, many-flowered; flowers sessile. Calyx campanulate, 1 lin. long, 5-partite almost to the base; lobes ovate, acute. Corolla campanulate, scarcely longer than the calyx; lobes slightly exceeding the tube, narrowly triangular-ovate, very acute; scales broadly-oblong, fimbriate. Stamens slightly exserted, shorter than the corolla-lobes. Styles 2, shorter than the stigmas. Stigmas slender, included, together with the styles about 1/2 in. long. Capsule circumscissile; seeds brown, testa rough.
Distribution
Eritrea Nile Land Habab, Hildebrandt, 506!Abyssinia Nile Land by the Tacazze River, Quartin-Dillon.Somaliland Nile Land Serut Mountains, near Maid, 5000–7500 ft., Hildebrandt, 1413! Wagga Mountain, 6000 ft., Mrs. Lort Phillips!
Notes
I have seen no authenticated specimen of this species, and the determinations are made with some reserve. The species is very near C. planiflora, differing only in the longer, more acute corolla-lobes. — A. B. R.

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