Cuscuta suksdorfii |
Cuscuta tuberculata |
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mountain dodder |
tuber dodder, tubercle dodder |
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Stems | yellow, slender. |
yellow-orange, filiform. |
Inflorescences | loose, umbelliform; bracts at base of clusters 1, at base of pedicels and/or flowers 0 or 1, ovate-lanceolate, membranous, margins entire, apex acute. |
loose, umbelliform-racemiform; bracts at base of clusters 1, at base of peduncles 0(or 1), ovate-lanceolate, membranous, margins entire, apex acute. |
Pedicels | 0–2 mm. |
2–3(–5) mm. |
Flowers | 4- or 5-merous, 2.8–3.3 mm, membranous, not papillate; calyx slightly zygomorphic, creamy yellow, broadly campanulate, 1-1/3–1-1/2 corolla tube length, divided 1/2–3/5 its length, not reticulate or shiny, lobes ovate, bases not overlapping, margins entire, midvein not carinate, apex long-attenuate; corolla white, drying creamy yellow, 2.6–3 mm, tube campanulate, 1.2–1.5 mm, not saccate, lobes suberect, triangular-ovate, longer than corolla tube length, margins entire, apex lance-attenuate, straight; infrastaminal scales relatively poorly developed, oblong, 0.6–1 mm, 1/2–3/4 corolla tube length, bridged at 0.2–0.3 mm, usually reduced to denticulate wings, rarely 2-fid with 1–3 fimbriae on each side of filament attachments, 0.1–0.2 mm; stamens included or barely visible through corolla sinuses, shorter than corolla lobes; filaments 0.2–0.5 mm; anthers 0.2–0.4 × 0.2–0.3 mm; styles terete to slightly subulate, 0.3–0.7 mm, 1/4 ovary length. |
5-merous, 2.5–4 mm, membranous, papillate, especially at base of corolla tube; calyx yellow, cupulate-angular, 1/3–1/2 corolla tube length, divided ± to base, not or finely reticulate, ± glossy, lobes triangular to lanceolate, bases not overlapping, margins entire, midvein carinate and/or with multicellular protuberances, apex acute to acuminate; corolla white, drying creamy yellow, 2–3.5 mm, tube cylindric, 1.5–2.2 mm, not saccate, lobes erect, triangular-lanceolate, equaling corolla tube length, margins entire, apex acute, straight; infrastaminal scales ovate to oblong, 0.8–1.1 mm, 1/3–1/2 corolla tube length, bridged at 0.5–0.7 mm, rounded, uniformly short-fimbriate, fimbriae 0.2–0.3 mm; stamens barely exserted, shorter than to equaling corolla lobes; filaments 0.4–0.7 mm; anthers 0.5–0.8 × 0.3–0.5 mm; styles filiform, 1.5–3 mm, longer than ovary. |
Capsules | ellipsoid-ovoid, ovoid-conic, or globose to depressed-globose, 2–3.2 × 2–3.6 mm, not thickened or raised around relatively small interstylar aperture, translucent, proximal 1/2 surrounded by withered corolla, indehiscent. |
globose, 1.3–2.2 × 1–2.3 mm, slightly thickened and raised around relatively small interstylar aperture, translucent, capped by withered corolla, dehiscence circumscissile. |
Seeds | 2–4, obcompressed, subglobose, 0.8–1.1 × 0.8–1 mm, hilum subterminal. |
2–4, angled or slightly obcompressed, ellipsoid-oblong, 0.6–0.9 × 0.3–0.5 mm, hilum area lateral. |
Cuscuta suksdorfii |
Cuscuta tuberculata |
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Phenology | Flowering Jul–Sep. | Flowering Aug–Nov. |
Habitat | mountain meadows. | desert and thornscrub. |
Elevation | 1500–2600 m. (4900–8500 ft.) | 500–1000 m. (1600–3300 ft.) |
Distribution |
CA; OR; WA
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AZ; NM; Mexico (Baja California, Baja California Sur, Sonora)
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Source | FNA vol. 14. | FNA vol. 14. |
Parent taxa | Convolvulaceae > Cuscuta > subg. Grammica | Convolvulaceae > Cuscuta > subg. Grammica |
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Synonyms | C. salina var. acuminata, C. suksdorfii var. subpedicellata | |
Name authority | Yuncker: Mem. Torrey Bot. Club 18: 167. (1932) | Brandegee: Univ. Calif. Publ. Bot. 3: 389. (1909) |
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