• 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 chinensis Lam.
• Common name : Dodder, Chinese Dodder
• Vernacular name : Amarbel (Hindi); Amrvel (Marathi)
• Habit : Parasite
• Habitat : Moist and dry deciduous forests, also in the plains along with Ipomoea sp.
• Comments / notes : Occasional on foothills to 700m, by river banks and on thickets.
• Key identification features : Leafless twining
• Flower, Fruit : October-April
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Davanagare district, Udupi district, Dakshina Kannada district
  • Kerala : All districts of Kerala
  • Maharashtra : Akola district
  • Tamil Nadu : Low thickets, by river banks
• Native : China
• World Distribution : Iran to Australia, China
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Pullaiah et al., 2011 - Flora of Eastern Ghats Vol. 4; Matthew, K.M., The Flora of Tamil Nadu Carnatic, Vol.3 (1). Diocesan Press, Madras. 1983; Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI; Kamble & Pradhan, 1988. Flora of Akola District, Maharashtra. Botanical Survey of India; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2003 – Flora of Udupi; Manjunath et al., 2003 – Flora of Davanagere; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2014 - Flora of South Kanara
• 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 chinensis. Downloaded on 14 November 2024.

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