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Cuscuta americana

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Identification
Cuscuta americana
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Flora

Entry for CUSCUTA africana Thunb. [family CONVOLVULACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, Vol 4, page 45, (1904) Author: By J. G. BAKERand C. H. WRIGHT.
Names
CUSCUTA africana Thunb. [family CONVOLVULACEAE], Fl. Cap. ed. Schult. 156;—Choisy in DC. Prod. ix. 454, partly; Engelm. in Trans. Acad. Sc. St. Louis, i. 475.
CUSCUTA americana Thunb. [family CONVOLVULACEAE], Prodr. 32, not of Linn.
CUSCUTA sp. Drège [family CONVOLVULACEAE], Zwei Pflanzengeogr. Documente, 124.
Information
stems very slender; flowers in dense cymes; pedicels often two or three times as long as the flower; calyx 1/3 as long as the corolla; lobes round-deltoid, shortly united at the base into a hemispherical tube; corolla 1 1/2 lin. long; lobes spreading, oblong-lanceolate, about as long as the tube; stamens more than half as long as the corolla-lobes; filaments three times as long as the subglobose anthers; scales obovate, inciso-fimbriate, as long as the corolla-tube; styles free to the base, twice as long as the clavate stigmas; capsule 1 lin. in diam., membranous, bursting irregularly. null
Distribution
COAST REGION Cape Div.; Wynberg, Roxburgh! Riet Valley, Zeyher! Millers Point, Wolley Dod, 859! Riversdale Div.; lower part of the Lange Bergen, near Kampsche Berg, Burchell, 7031! George Div.; near Touw River, Burchell, 5724! 5730! Humansdorp Div.; Kromme River, Bolus, 2406! Uitenhage Div.; at the foot of Van Stadens Berg, Drège! near the sources of Bulk River, MacOwan, 1933! Var. β: Tulbagh Div.; New Kloof, Schlechter, 9043! George Div.; Kaymans Gat, Drège!SOUTH AFRICA without locality, Var. β, Thom, 508!

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