Cuscuta L.
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Authority
Acevedo-Rodríguez, Pedro. 2005. Vines and climbing plants of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. Contr. U. S. Natl. Herb. 51: 1-483.
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Family
Cuscutaceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
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Description - 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 indehiseent berry; seeds (1)2-4 per fruit, minute.