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|accepted_name=Cuscuta boldinghii
|accepted_authority=Urban
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg.
|place=16: 38. 1919
|year=1919
}}
|common_names=Caribbean dodder
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=W
|label=Weedy
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|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Convolvulaceae;Cuscuta;Cuscuta subg. Grammica;Cuscuta boldinghii
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Convolvulaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Cuscuta]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subgenus</small>[[Cuscuta subg. Grammica]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Cuscuta boldinghii]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 14
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Stems </b>yellow-orange, slender. <b>Inflorescences</b> glomerulate or compact-paniculiform, 15–70-flowered, flowers subsessile; bracts at base of clusters 1, at base of pedicels 0–2, ovate to lanceolate, membranous, margins entire, apex acuminate to attenuate. <b>Pedicels</b> 0.2–0.6 mm. <b>Flowers</b> 5-merous, 2.5–4 mm, membranous, not papillate; calyx brownish, campanulate, equaling corolla tube length, divided 1/2–2/3 its length, not reticulate, shiny, lobes oblong, obovate, ovate, or spatulate, bases overlapping, margins entire or finely serrulate-denticulate, midvein not carinate, apex acute to obtuse, each exceeded by hornlike appendage, 0.3–0.6 mm; corolla creamy white, drying brown, 2.2–3.2 mm, tube campanulate, 1.2–1.6 mm, not saccate, lobes spreading to reflexed, ovate to lanceolate, equaling corolla tube length, each with subapical, hornlike projection, 0.3–0.7 mm, margins entire or irregularly denticulate, apex obtuse, straight; infrastaminal scales oblong to broadly ovate or rounded, 1.2–1.6 mm, equaling corolla tube length, bridged at 0.5–0.7 mm, sparsely, uniformly short-fimbriate, fimbriae 0.04–0.1 mm; stamens exserted, shorter than corolla lobes; filaments 0.3–0.9 mm; anthers 0.4–0.5 × 0.2–0.3 mm; styles stout, ± subulate, 0.9–2 mm, longer than ovary. <b>Capsules</b> globose to slightly depressed, 1.8–2.3 × 1–2 mm, not thickened or raised around relatively small interstylar aperture, not translucent or becoming translucent very late, capped by withered corolla, dehiscence circumscissile. <b>Seeds</b> 1–4, angled, subglobose or ovoid to broadly ellipsoid, 0.7–1.1 × 0.7–0.9 mm, hilum region subterminal.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering Jul–Nov.
|habitat=Hosts: herbs and woody plants.
|elevation=0–10 m.
|distribution=Fla.;Mexico;West Indies (Puerto Rico);Central America;n South America.
|discussion=<p>Cuscuta boldinghii was reported from Florida as a parasite of Citrus (L. C. Knorr 1949); it was collected again in Florida (Monroe County) in 2002.</p><!--
--><p>Cuscuta boldinghii and C. erosa are the only species in the flora area bearing hornlike appendages with stomata on corolla lobes (M. Costea et al. 2011).</p>
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Cuscuta boldinghii
|authority=Urban
|rank=species
|parent rank=subgenus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Convolvulaceae
|phenology=Flowering Jul–Nov.
|habitat=Hosts: herbs and woody plants.
|elevation=0–10 m.
|distribution=Fla.;Mexico;West Indies (Puerto Rico);Central America;n South America.
|reference=None
|publication title=Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg.
|publication year=1919
|special status=Weedy
|source xml=
|genus=Cuscuta
|subgenus=Cuscuta subg. Grammica
|species=Cuscuta boldinghii
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