Cuscuta campestris Yunck.

 
  • 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 campestris Yunck.
  • Habit : Parasite
  • Habitat : Waste places
  • Key identification features : Leafless twining
  • Flower, Fruit : November-April
  • Distribution :
    • Karnataka : Ballari district, Hassan district
    • Tamil Nadu : Vellore district
  • Native : N. America
  • World Distribution : Spead to all other parts
  • Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
  • Literature : Pullaiah et al., 2011 - Flora of Eastern Ghats Vol. 4; N.P.Singh, 1988. Flora of Eastern Karnataka
  • 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 campestris. Downloaded on 14 November 2024.

Botanical Description

Herbarium Specimen(s)

Comments

All fields are required






 
Creative Commons License
Digital Flora of Peninsular India by Herbarium JCB is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
Based on a work at http://peninsula.ces.iisc.ernet.in.