View source for Cuscuta chinensis var. applanata

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|accepted_name=Cuscuta chinensis var. applanata
|accepted_authority=(Engelmann) Costea & Stefanović
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Organisms Diversity Evol.
|place=11: 383. 2011
|year=2011
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|common_names=Gila River dodder
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Cuscuta applanata
|authority=Engelmann
|rank=species
|publication_title=Trans. Acad. Sci. St. Louis
|publication_place=1: 479.  1859
}}
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Convolvulaceae;Cuscuta;Cuscuta subg. Grammica;Cuscuta chinensis;Cuscuta chinensis var. applanata
|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 chinensis]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>variety</small>[[Cuscuta chinensis var. applanata]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 14
|mention_page=
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Stems </b>yellow to creamy, slender to medium. <b>Inflorescences</b> glomerulate to loosely paniculiform; bracts at base of clusters 1, at base of pedicels 0 or 1, broadly ovate to subround, membranous, margins entire, apex obtuse to rounded. <b>Pedicels</b> 0.4–2 mm. <b>Flowers</b> 5-merous, 2.5–3.5 mm, membranous, not papillate; calyx straw yellow, shallowly cupulate, equaling corolla tube length, divided 1/2 its length, reticulate, shiny, lobes broadly triangular-ovate, bases overlapping, margins entire or irregular, midvein carinate with multicellular protuberances, apex rounded to obtuse; corolla white, drying creamy yellow, 2–2.4 mm, tube campanulate, becoming globose to depressed-globose or urceolate, 1–1.3 mm, not saccate, lobes spreading, ovate-lanceolate, equaling corolla tube length, margins entire, apex rounded, ± incurved, not inflexed; infrastaminal scales obovate, 1.2–1.8 mm, equaling or longer than corolla tube length, bridged at 0.2–0.4 mm, long-fimbriate in distal 1/2, fimbriae 0.2–0.4 mm; stamens exserted, shorter than corolla lobes; filaments 0.3–0.6 mm; anthers 0.4–0.6 × 0.4–0.5 mm; styles filiform, 0.9–1.7 mm, equaling or longer than ovary. <b>Capsules</b> depressed-globose, slightly angular, 1.8–2.5 × 0.8–1.6 mm, not thickened or raised around relatively small interstylar aperture, translucent, surrounded by withered corolla, dehiscence circumscissile. <b>Seeds</b> (1–)3 or 4, angled, broadly ellipsoid, 0.8–1.2 × 0.8–1.1 mm, hilum region almost terminal.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering Jul–Oct.
|habitat=Hosts: Amaranthus, Ambrosia, Anisacanthus, Bahia, Baileya, Boerhavia, Chamaecrista, Chamaesaracha, Croton, Dalea, Flaveria, Ipomoea, Parthenium, Sanvitalia, Solanum, Tiquilia, Tragia, Viguiera, and others.
|elevation=100–1500 m.
|distribution=Ariz.;N.Mex.;Tex.;Utah;Mexico.
|discussion=<p>Varieties applanata and chinensis are similar morphologically but geographically disjunct as a result of a long-distance dispersal event from North America to Australia/Asia (M. Costea et al. 2011b).</p>
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name=Cuscuta chinensis var. applanata
|authority=(Engelmann) Costea & Stefanović
|rank=variety
|parent rank=species
|synonyms=
|basionyms=Cuscuta applanata
|family=Convolvulaceae
|phenology=Flowering Jul–Oct.
|habitat=Hosts: Amaranthus, Ambrosia, Anisacanthus, Bahia, Baileya, Boerhavia, Chamaecrista, Chamaesaracha, Croton, Dalea, Flaveria, Ipomoea, Parthenium, Sanvitalia, Solanum, Tiquilia, Tragia, Viguiera, and others.
|elevation=100–1500 m.
|distribution=Ariz.;N.Mex.;Tex.;Utah;Mexico.
|reference=None
|publication title=Organisms Diversity Evol.
|publication year=2011
|special status=
|source xml=
|genus=Cuscuta
|subgenus=Cuscuta subg. Grammica
|species=Cuscuta chinensis
|variety=Cuscuta chinensis var. applanata
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