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|accepted_name=Cuscuta compacta
|accepted_authority=Jussieu ex Choisy
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Mém. Soc. Phys. Genève
|place=9: 281, plate 4, fig. 2. 1842
|year=1842
}}
|common_names=Compact dodder
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=W
|label=Weedy
}}{{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=F
|label=Illustrated
}}{{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=E
|label=Endemic
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Cuscuta compacta var. efimbriata
|authority=Yuncker
|rank=variety
}}
|hierarchy=Convolvulaceae;Cuscuta;Cuscuta subg. Grammica;Cuscuta compacta
|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 compacta]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 14
|mention_page=
|treatment_page=
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Stems </b>yellow-orange, coarse. <b>Inflorescences</b> dense to loose, glomerulate, often originating endogenously; bracts at base of clusters, pedicels, and/or flowers 2–4(–6), ovate-orbiculate, fleshy, margins scarious, finely denticulate-fimbriate, apex erect, obtuse. <b>Pedicels</b> 0–1 mm. <b>Flowers</b> 5-merous, 4–6 mm, fleshy, not papillate; calyx brown-yellow, cylindro-campanulate, 3/4 corolla tube length, divided to base or nearly so, finely reticulate, shiny, lobes orbiculate, bases broadly overlapping, margins scarious, minutely denticulate-fimbriate, midvein not carinate, apex rounded; corolla white to creamy greenish, drying creamy brown, 3.8–4.5 mm, tube cylindric, 3–4 mm, not saccate, lobes spreading to reflexed, ovate, 1/3–1/4 corolla tube length, margins entire, apex obtuse, straight; infrastaminal scales oblong to obovate, 2.6–3.3 mm, 3/4 to equaling corolla tube length, bridged at 0.9–1.3 mm, usually densely fimbriate in distal 1/2–3/4, sometimes reduced, 2-fid with 1–3 fimbriae on each side of filament insertion or dentate-winged, fimbriae 0.4–0.8 mm; stamens exserted, shorter than corolla lobes; filaments 0.2–0.3 mm; anthers 0.3–0.4 × 0.3–0.4 mm; styles filiform, 1–2 mm, longer than ovary. <b>Capsules</b> conic-globose to broadly ellipsoid, 3–5(–6) × 2–2.5 mm, thickened and slightly umbonate around relatively small interstylar aperture, not translucent, capped by withered corolla, indehiscent. <b>Seeds</b> 1–4, obcompressed, broadly ovoid to broadly ellipsoid, 1.9–2.5 × 1.7–2.3 mm, hilum region subterminal. <b>2n</b> = 30.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering late Jul–Nov.
|habitat=wetland margins, wet woodlands.
|elevation=30–300 m.
|distribution=Ala.;Ark.;Conn.;Del.;D.C.;Fla.;Ga.;Ill.;Ind.;Iowa;Ky.;La.;Md.;Mass.;Miss.;Mo.;N.H.;N.J.;N.Y.;N.C.;Okla.;Pa.;R.I.;S.C.;Tenn.;Tex.;Va.
|discussion=<p>Cuscuta compacta var. efimbriata was treated as a synonym of C. compacta by D. F. Austin (1980). Yuncker recognized its presence in Florida (the type collection) and Arkansas; these plants apparently are populational variants, distinguished by infrastaminal scales shorter than the corolla tube, much reduced in size, bifid or winged, and reduced in marginal fimbriae.</p>
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name=Cuscuta compacta
|authority=Jussieu ex Choisy
|rank=species
|parent rank=subgenus
|synonyms=Cuscuta compacta var. efimbriata
|basionyms=
|family=Convolvulaceae
|phenology=Flowering late Jul–Nov.
|habitat=wetland margins, wet woodlands.
|elevation=30–300 m.
|distribution=Ala.;Ark.;Conn.;Del.;D.C.;Fla.;Ga.;Ill.;Ind.;Iowa;Ky.;La.;Md.;Mass.;Miss.;Mo.;N.H.;N.J.;N.Y.;N.C.;Okla.;Pa.;R.I.;S.C.;Tenn.;Tex.;Va.
|reference=None
|publication title=Mém. Soc. Phys. Genève
|publication year=1842
|special status=Weedy;Illustrated;Endemic
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|genus=Cuscuta
|subgenus=Cuscuta subg. Grammica
|species=Cuscuta compacta
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