Biology:Cuscuta reflexa

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Short description: Species of flowering plant

Cuscuta reflexa
Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Solanales
Family: Convolvulaceae
Genus: Cuscuta
Species:
C. reflexa
Binomial name
Cuscuta reflexa
Roxb.[1]
Varieties[1]
  • Cuscuta reflexa var. brachystigma Engelm.
  • Cuscuta reflexa var. reflexa
Synonyms
  • (Roxb.) Raf. Monogynella reflexa (Roxb.)
  • Kadurias reflexa Holub
  • (Edgew.) C.B.Clarke Edgew.
  • Cuscuta pentandra Cuscuta anguina
  • B.Heyne ex Engelm. Cuscuta reflexa var. anguina
  • Cuscuta elatior Choisy
  • Wall. ex Choisy, nom. illeg. G.Don
  • Sweet Cuscuta megalantha
  • Cuscuta hookeri Steud.
  • Cuscuta reflexa var. grandiflora Cuscuta grandiflora
  • Sweet Engelm.
  • Cuscuta reflexa var. verrucosa Cuscuta macrantha
  • (Sweet) Hook. Cuscuta verrucosa

Cuscuta reflexa, the giant dodder or ulan ulan,[4] is one of about 220 species in genus Cuscuta, in the family Convolvulaceae.[5] It is common in the Indian subcontinent and the Greater Himalayas and as far south as Malaysia and Indonesia.[6] This parasitic plant species is a leafless twined sprawling thin vine that grows over a host plant, including large trees. It will make garlands hanging down from tree canopies as long as 10 metres (33 ft).[7] The flowers are small, bell shaped and white with yellow filaments.

  • Cuscuta reflexa flowers
    Cuscuta reflexa flowers

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Cuscuta reflexa Roxb." (in en). Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. http://www.plantsoftheworldonline.org/taxon/267630-1. 
  2. ↑ "Cuscuta reflexa var. brachystigma Engelm." (in en). Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. http://www.plantsoftheworldonline.org/taxon/77189658-1. 
  3. ↑ "Cuscuta reflexa var. reflexa" (in en). Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. http://www.plantsoftheworldonline.org/taxon/77173246-1. 
  4. ↑ "Cuscuta reflexa". Natural Resources Conservation Service PLANTS Database. USDA. https://plants.usda.gov/core/profile?symbol=CURE. 
  5. ↑ "Cuscuta L." (in en). Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. http://www.plantsoftheworldonline.org/taxon/30005574-2. 
  6. ↑ O'Neill, A.R.; Rana, S.K. (2019). "An ethnobotanical analysis of parasitic plants (Parijibi) in the Nepal Himalaya". Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 12 (14): 14. doi:10.1186/s13002-016-0086-y. PMID 26912113. 
  7. ↑ Van Steenis, C.G.G.J. (1972). The Mountain Flora of Java. Leiden, Netherlands: E.J. Brill. p. Plate 13 Caption 3. 

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