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Cuscuta
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Twining, annual or perennial, parasitic herbs without chlorophyll, attached to the host by numerous haustoria. Stems slender, whitish, yellowish or reddish. Leaves alternate, reduced to minute scales or 0. Flowers in dense, ± sessile, spherical clusters, 4-5-merous. Sepals fused at base. Corolla usually white or pink, with 4-5-lobes fused below, usually with a whorl of scales inside the tube opposite to and just below the stamens. Stamens 4-5. Ovary 2(-3)-locular, each loculus with 2 ovules. Styles 2, terminal, distinct or connate. Capsule opening irregularly, circumscissile or indehiscent. Seeds 4 or fewer.Sometimes, as in FZ, included within its own family, Cuscutaceae, but here put with Convolvulaceae.
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Cuscuta
Hierbas de tallos más o menos largos volubles, sin clorofila, parásitos mediante haustorios. Hojas alternas, rudimentarias, reducidas a diminutas escamas; estípulas ausentes. Flores diminutas, bisexuales, actinomorfas en cabezuelas o espigas axilares; cáliz crateriforme, con 4-5 sépalos libres o connatos; corola blanca o rosada, tubular, con 4-5 lóbulos; estambre 4-5, los filamentos adnatos al tubo de la corola, con un apéndice basal en la superficie ventral, las anteras dehiscentes longitudinalmente; ovario súpero, bicarpelar, cada cárpelo con 2 óvulos, los estilos 2, libres. Fruto una cápsula circuncísil o de dehiscencia irregular o una baya indehiscente; semillas (1) 2-4 por fruto, diminutas.
Cuscuta
Herbs with more or less long twining stems, without chlorophyll, parasites by means of haustoria. Leaves alternate, rudimentary, reduced to minute scales; stipules absent. Flowers minute, bisexual, actinomorphic, in axillary heads or spikes; calyx crateriform, of 4-5 free or connate sepals; corolla white or pink, tubular, with 4-5 lobes; stamens 4-5, the filaments adnate to the corolla tube, with a basal appendage on the ventral surface, the anthers longitudinally dehiscent; ovary superior, bicarpellate, each carpel with 2 ovules, the styles 2, free. Fruit a capsule, circumscissile or with irregular dehiscence, or an indehiscent berry; seeds (1)2-4 per fruit, minute.
Depth range based on 10 specimens in 2 taxa.
Environmental ranges
Depth range (m): 0 - 0
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In Great Britain and/or Ireland:
Foodplant / gall
larva of Smicronyx jungermanniae causes gall of stem of Cuscuta
Remarks: Other: uncertain
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Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) Stats
Specimen Records:240
Specimens with Sequences:238
Specimens with Barcodes:150
Species:75
Species With Barcodes:71
Public Records:188
Public Species:67
Public BINs:0
Distribucion en Costa Rica: Se encuentra en la Península de Nicoya, en las faldas de la Cordillera de Tilarán, Valle del Térraba y cercanías de Dominical, elevación entre 50 y 1050 m.
Distribucion General: De México a Ecuador y Brasil, Antillas.
Localidad del tipo: Plumier
Depositario del tipo: No localizado.
Recolector del tipo: Nov. Pl. Amer. t. 33 Karatas (1703)
Terrestre.