CUSCUTA hyalina Roth [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 hyalina Roth [family CONVOLVULACEAE], Nov. Plant. Spec. : 100 (1821); Bak. & Rendle in F.T.A. 4 (2) : 205 (1906); Yuncker in Mem. Torr. Bot. Club 18 : 235, fig. 107 (1932); Verdc. in E. Afr. Agr. Journ. 18 : 85 (1953); Meeuse in Bothalia 6 : 650 (1958). Type : India “ orientale ”, Heyne (B, holo. †, K, iso.!)
CUSCUTA epitribulum Schinz [family CONVOLVULACEAE], in Bull. Herb. Boiss., sér. 2, 1 : 880 (1901); Bak. & Rendle in F.T.A. 4 (2): 206 (1906). Type : South West Africa, Okomita, Dinter 506 (Z, holo.!)
Information
Stems usually very slender, under 0.5 mm. in diameter. Flowers whitish, rather shining, 2.5–3 mm. long and 2.5 mm. broad, in loose umbellate clusters; pedicels about equalling the flowers. Calyx-lobes sharply acute, often exceeding the corolla. Corolla-lobes narrow and very acute, erect or reflexed. Stamens about 1 mm. long. Scales not present in any specimens seen from East Africa. Styles slender, equalling or exceeding the ovary. Capsule thin, depressed-globular; intrastylar opening small with a longitudinal groove from each end running down the capsule.
Range
DISTR. U1; K3; T1
Altitude range
1000–1500m.
Distribution
KENYA Baringo District near Lake Baringo, Mar. 1901, H. H. Johnston ! & Perkerra, 3 Jan. 1957, Nattrass H163/56–7 ! & 27 June 1958, C. D. van Someren H196/58/2 !TANGANYIKA Mwanza District Massanza I., Nyambiti, 10 Mar. 1953, Tanner 1270 ! ;TANGANYIKA Kwimba District W. Urima, Nyantimba, Feb. 1933, Rounce 267 !UGANDA Karamoja District near Amudat, 1 June 1939, A. S. Thomas 2989 !
Distribution (external)
; Sudan Republic
Ethiopia
Southern Rhodesia
South West
South Africa; India
Notes
VARIATION. A var. nubiana Yuncker from the Sudan Republic sometimes has traces of scales.
CUSCUTA hyalina Roth [family CONVOLVULACEAE]
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