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|accepted_name=Cassytha
|accepted_authority=Osbeck in C. Linnaeus
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Sp. Pl.
|place=1: 35. 175
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|title=Gen. Pl. ed.
|place=5, 22. 1754 (as "Cassyta")
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|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Lauraceae;Cassytha
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Lauraceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Cassytha]]</div></div>
|etymology=Greek kasytas, name for Cuscuta
|volume=Volume 3
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--><span class="statement" id="st-d0_s0" data-properties="vine nutrition;stem shape"><b>Vines,</b> parasitic, with threadlike stems.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s1" data-properties="leaf size;leaf size;leaf size;leaf arrangement;leaf pubescence;leaf pubescence"><b>Leaves </b>reduced to minute scales, spirally arranged, glabrous or pubescent.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s2" data-properties="inflorescences spike size;flower quantity"><b>Inflorescences </b>spikes [panicles or racemes], rarely reduced to single flower.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s3" data-properties="flower reproduction;flower architecture;flower architecture"><b>Flowers </b>bisexual, sessile or shortly pedicellate, subtended by bract and 2 bracteoles;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s4" data-properties="tepal duration;apex coloration;apex coloration;floral-tube size;innermost row size">tepals persistent at apex of accrescent floral-tube that surrounds fruit, greenish white or whitish, outermost row similar to bracts, innermost row larger;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s5" data-properties="stamen quantity;anther architecture or structure in adjective form;outer stamen quantity;stamen dehiscence;stamen dehiscence or orientation;inner stamen quantity">stamens 9 (or 6), anthers 2-locular, anthers of outer 6 stamens introrse, of inner 3 extrorse;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s6" data-properties="staminode quantity">staminodes 3 (or 6);</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s7" data-properties="ovary shape">ovary globose.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s8" data-properties="drupe coloration;drupe shape;remnant position"><b>Drupe </b>black, globose, enclosed in floral-tube, remnants of perianth apical.</span><!--

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|distribution=Tropical and subtropical regions;North America;mostly Australia;a few in Africa
|discussion=<p>Species ca. 17 (1 in the flora).</p>
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|references={{Treatment/Reference
|id=weber1981a
|text=Weber, J. L. 1981. A taxonomic revision of Cassytha (Lauraceae) in Australia. J. Adelaide Bot. Gard. 3(3): 187-262.
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name=Cassytha
|author=Henk van der Werff
|authority=Osbeck in C. Linnaeus
|rank=genus
|parent rank=family
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Lauraceae
|distribution=Tropical and subtropical regions;North America;mostly Australia;a few in Africa
|reference=weber1981a
|publication title=Sp. Pl.;Gen. Pl. ed.
|publication year=;
|special status=
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|genus=Cassytha
|anther architecture or structure in adjective form=2-locular
|apex coloration=whitish;greenish white
|drupe coloration=black
|drupe shape=globose
|floral-tube size=accrescent
|flower architecture=pedicellate;sessile
|flower quantity=single
|flower reproduction=bisexual
|inflorescences spike size=reduced
|inner stamen quantity=3
|innermost row size=larger
|leaf arrangement=arranged
|leaf pubescence=pubescent;glabrous
|leaf size=reduced;minute
|outer stamen quantity=6
|ovary shape=globose
|remnant position=apical
|stamen dehiscence=introrse
|stamen dehiscence or orientation=extrorse
|stamen quantity=9
|staminode quantity=3
|stem shape=thread-like
|tepal duration=persistent
|vine nutrition=parasitic
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