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Cuscuta obtusiflora

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Identification
Cuscuta cristata Engelm. [family CONVOLVULACEAE ] (stored under name); Cuscuta obtusiflora Kunth [family CONVOLVULACEAE ] Verified by Engler,
Related name
  • Cuscuta cristata
  • Cuscuta obtusiflora
  • Cuscuta chinensis

Flora

Entry for CUSCUTA obtusiflora Rendle. Var. eritræana [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 obtusiflora Rendle. Var. eritræana [family CONVOLVULACEAE]
Information
Stems filiform. Flowers few in a cluster, subsessile, eglandular; bracts concave, bluntly ovate, strongly keeled, about 1 lin. long. Calyx 1 1/4 lin. long, shortly campanulate; lobes 5, shorter than the tube, very obtuse, unequal; sepals keeled. Corolla barely exceeding the calyx, with globose tube and strongly reflexed, short, bluntly ovate lobes. Stamens nearly as long as the lobes.
Range
The species is widely distributed with numerous varieties in both Old and New Worlds.
Distribution
Eritrea Nile Land Mount Gheden, near Massaua, 500–1000 ft., Schweinfurth & Riva, 94!
Notes
The brief description of C. ndorensis, Schweinf. (in von Hohnel's Pl. Rudolph See, 859), gathered by von Hohnel at 6000 ft. alt. in Ndoro, gives no character by which it can be distinguished from C. obtusiflora .

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