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Cuscuta reflexa Roxb. (1798)
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Stems yellow or yellowish green, stout, 2-3 mm in diam., with brown spots. Inflorescences lateral, few to many flowered, in racemes or panicles 1.5-3 cm, branched; bracts and bractoles scalelike. Pedicel 2-4 mm, together with peduncle, brown spotted or tuberculate. Calyx cupular; sepals 5, broadly ovate, equal, 2-2.5 mm, with a few tubercles abaxially, apex rotund. Corolla white or creamy, fragrant, tubular, 5-9 mm; lobes early deciduous, often reflexed, sometimes erect, triangular-ovate, shorter than tube. Stamens inserted at throat; filaments shorter than anthers or absent; anthers elliptic-ovate; scales oblong, reaching middle of tube, short and densely fimbriate. Ovary ovate-conical. Style 1, very short or absent; stigma divergent or erect, elongated, ligulate, longer than style. Capsule conical-globose, subquadrate when mature, 5-10 mm in diam., circumscissile. Seeds 1-4, dark brown, oblong, ca. 4 mm. 2n = 28, 32, 36, 42.
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Stem thick, brown to dark brown, not interlaced, making many spirals around the host stem. Leaves broadly elliptical or off thick, fleshy, 1.5-2 x 1.3-2 mm. Flowers arranged in short racemes or spikes sessile, 6-9 mm long; bracts leaf-like; calyx lobes 5, very compactly encircling the corolla tube, ovate, obtuse, fleshy, thick at the base, margin slightly scarious, overlapping. at the middle, dentate or entire, 2-3 x 1-2 mm; tube 1-2 mm long. Corolla lobes 5, 4-6 x 0.8-12 mm, oblong obtuse, inflexed, shorter than tube, without reticulate pattern, tube 3.5-5 mm long; scales ovate, finnbriated with numerous short processes, scarious, to fleshy, 1-4.5 mm long. Stamen 5, sessile, free, filament obsolete, fused filament prominent in the petals, anther oblong, attached below the sinuses, 1.2-1.6 mm long. Ovary globose, yellow-brown, fleshy, tapering into a subulate, c. 4 m long style; stigma 2, oblong, tips light green, 1-12 mm long; ovules 2, orbicular, brown, c. 8 mm in diameter. Capsule, 5 -6 x 4-5 mm, globose-conical, c. cartilagnous, circumacissile near the base with a definite line of cleavage. Seeds 2-ugly one matures, glossy, reniform or orbicular, brown-black, smooth, a. 1.5-1.7-mm in diameter.
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2550 m
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Stems thin or stout. Inflorescences racemose, compact. Flowers 5-7 mm, short pedicellate. Calyx reaching middle of corolla; sepals circular-ovate. Corolla lobes reflexed, elliptic-ovate, shorter than corolla tube. Stamens inserted below sinus, subsessile; scales ovate, reaching middle of tube, 2-cleft, fimbriate. Ovary globose. Style 1, subulate; stigma ca. as long as or shorter than style, ligulate. Capsule subquadrate, circumscissile.
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"Stout succulent twiners; stem up to 2.5 mm in diam., yellowish. Flowers sessile in lateral racemes. Calyx cupular, lobes herbaceous, c. 1.5 mm long, suborbicular. Corolla cream coloured, c. 7 mm across, 6-8 mm long, funnel-form; lobes ovate-triangular, erect. Stamens 5; filaments very short; corolla scale ovate to oblong, fimbriate. Ovary c. 2 mm long, conical, stigma acute. Capsule succulent, c. 5 mm across, globose-conical. Seeds 3-3.5 mm long, black."
Habit: Twiner
"Notes: Plains, Dry Localities"
"Deciduous forests, also in the plains"
Flowering class: Dicot Habit: Climber
On shrubs; 900-2800 m.
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