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Cuscuta arvensis

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Name

Identification
Cuscuta arvensis Beyrich ex Engelm. in A. Gray [family CONVOLVULACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet,
Related name
  • Cuscuta arvensis
  • Cuscuta globularis
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Flora

Entry for CUSCUTA campestris Yuncker [family CONVOLVULACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical East Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical East Africa, page 1, (1963) Author: B. VERDCOURT (East African Herbarium)
Names
CUSCUTA campestris Yuncker [family CONVOLVULACEAE], in Mem. Torr. Bot. Club 18 : 138, fig. 14 (1932); van Ooststr. in Nederl. Kruidkundig Archief 52 : 164, fig. 1 (1942); Meeuse in Bothalia 6 : 648 (1958). Type : U.S.A., Texas, Lindheimer 126 (MO, holo.)
CUSCUTA arvensis [family CONVOLVULACEAE], sensu auctt., non Beyrich]
Information
Stems yellowish (drying pale brownish straw-colour), slender, mostly 0.1–0.3 mm. in diameter. Flowers small, about 1.5 mm. long and broad, and only 2.5 mm. when the capsule is mature, greenish-yellow, in rather compact cymose clusters; pedicels mostly shorter than the flowers. Calyx-lobes obtuse or somewhat acute. Corolla-lobes triangular, acute, equalling the corolla-tube. Stamens shorter than the lobes; filaments about 1 mm. long. Scales large, adnate only at the base, much fringed apically and almost or quite reaching the anthers. Styles about 1 mm. long, slender. Capsule depressed-globose, not splitting at the base, drying pale brownish straw-colour; intrastylar opening small, ± 0.75 mm. long. Seeds ± 1 mm. long.
Range
DISTR. U4; K3, 4, 6; T2 an American species widely naturalized in the Old World.
Altitude range
1000–2000 m.
Distribution
KENYA Nakuru District Njoro, 19 Nov. 1931, Thorold 2012 !KENYA Nairobi: in the city, 30 Apr. 1953, Verdcourt 924! & National Park, Hippo Pool, 26 Dec. 1950, Verdcourt 407!TANGANYIKA Moshi District Msoo River, Willan 432 !UGANDA Mengo District Mabira Forest, Nov. 1961, Tweedie 2262 !

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