Compilation
Cassytha ciliolata

stems filiform, yellow, glabrous or sometimes the growing tips rufous-hispidulous; leaf-scales ovate, subacute, slightly produced downwards at the obtuse and often very minutely hispidulous base, up to 1 lin. long; inflorescences peduncled, few- (usually 3-) flowered, capitate or shortly spicate; peduncles simple or more rarely divided, glabrous or sometimes sparingly and very minutely hispidulous 1–6 (usually about 3) lin. long; with two lateral scale-leaves at the base resembling the supporting scale-leaves, but usually narrower and more acute; bracts and bracteoles broad-ovate to rotundate, subacute or obtuse, 1/2– 3/4 lin. long, minutely and sometimes sparingly ciliolate or eciliolate; perianth at the time of flowering 1 1/2–2 lin. long, quite glabrous apart from the outer segments which resemble the bracteoles and are like these often more or less ciliolate; segments somewhat fleshy; inner segments ovate-oblong, obtuse, 1 1/4–1 1/2 lin. long; stamens of the first 3 whorls fertile; anthers ovate; filaments glabrous, slightly narrowed towards the base, those of the second whorl very short, of the fourth whorl reduced to thick triangular sessile staminodes; fruit yellow, globose, ellipsoid, 2 1/2–3 lin. long, crowned by the persistent perianth. null