Cuscuta australis R.Br.

 
  • Family : CUSCUTACEAE
    (Dodder or Devil’s gut Family)
  • Family (Hindi name) : CUSCUTA FAMILY
  • Family (as per The APG System III) : CONVOLVULACEAE
  • Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Cuscuta australis R.Br.
  • Habit : Parasite
  • Habitat : Stems of flowering trees
  • Key identification features : Leafless slender twiner, stem filiform, pale brownish-yellow; capsule dipressed-globose or obpyriform, brow; seeds 2-4, ovaoid, foveolate, hilum with a short diagnal line
  • Flower, Fruit : August-September
  • Distribution :
    • Maharashtra : Pune district, Thane district
  • World Distribution : Australia, Turkmenistan and India to China, Malaya and New Guinea
  • Literature : N.P. Singh, P. Lakshminarasimhan, S. Karthikeyan & P. V. Prasanna (2001). Flora of Maharashtra state, Dicotyledones. Vol. 2.pp.490. Botanical survey of India, Govt. India.
  • Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Raja K Swamy, Deepak Kumar, Arun Singh R. and K. Gopalakrishna Bhat (2019). Flora of Peninsular India. http://peninsula.ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Cuscuta australis. Downloaded on 21 November 2024.

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