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|accepted_name=Cuscuta suksdorfii
|accepted_authority=Yuncker
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Mem. Torrey Bot. Club
|place=18: 167. 1932
|year=1932
}}
|common_names=Mountain dodder
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=E
|label=Endemic
}}
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Cuscuta salina var. acuminata
|authority=Yuncker
|rank=variety
|publication_title=Illinois Biol. Monogr.
|publication_place=6: 162, plate 6, fig. 32f,g, plate 11, fig. 89.  1921
}}
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=C. suksdorfii var. subpedicellata
|authority=Yuncker
|rank=variety
}}
|hierarchy=Convolvulaceae;Cuscuta;Cuscuta subg. Grammica;Cuscuta suksdorfii
|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 suksdorfii]]</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, slender. <b>Inflo</b>rescences loose, umbelliform; bracts at base of clusters 1, at base of pedicels and/or flowers 0 or 1, ovate-lanceolate, membranous, margins entire, apex acute. <b>Pedicels</b> 0–2 mm. <b>Flowers</b> 4- or 5-merous, 2.8–3.3 mm, membranous, not papillate; calyx slightly zygomorphic, creamy yellow, broadly campanulate, 1-1/3–1-1/2 corolla tube length, divided 1/2–3/5 its length, not reticulate or shiny, lobes ovate, bases not overlapping, margins entire, midvein not carinate, apex long-attenuate; corolla white, drying creamy yellow, 2.6–3 mm, tube campanulate, 1.2–1.5 mm, not saccate, lobes suberect, triangular-ovate, longer than corolla tube length, margins entire, apex lance-attenuate, straight; infrastaminal scales relatively poorly developed, oblong, 0.6–1 mm, 1/2–3/4 corolla tube length, bridged at 0.2–0.3 mm, usually reduced to denticulate wings, rarely 2-fid with 1–3 fimbriae on each side of filament attachments, 0.1–0.2 mm; stamens included or barely visible through corolla sinuses, shorter than corolla lobes; filaments 0.2–0.5 mm; anthers 0.2–0.4 × 0.2–0.3 mm; styles terete to slightly subulate, 0.3–0.7 mm, 1/4 ovary length. <b>Capsules</b> ellipsoid-ovoid, ovoid-conic, or globose to depressed-globose, 2–3.2 × 2–3.6 mm, not thickened or raised around relatively small interstylar aperture, translucent, proximal 1/2 surrounded by withered corolla, indehiscent. <b>Seeds</b> 2–4, obcompressed, subglobose, 0.8–1.1 × 0.8–1 mm, hilum subterminal.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering Jul–Sep.
|habitat=mountain meadows.
|elevation=1500–2600 m.
|distribution=Calif.;Oreg.;Wash.
|tables=
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name=Cuscuta suksdorfii
|authority=Yuncker
|rank=species
|parent rank=subgenus
|synonyms=C. suksdorfii var. subpedicellata
|basionyms=Cuscuta salina var. acuminata
|family=Convolvulaceae
|phenology=Flowering Jul–Sep.
|habitat=mountain meadows.
|elevation=1500–2600 m.
|distribution=Calif.;Oreg.;Wash.
|reference=None
|publication title=Mem. Torrey Bot. Club
|publication year=1932
|special status=Endemic
|source xml=
|genus=Cuscuta
|subgenus=Cuscuta subg. Grammica
|species=Cuscuta suksdorfii
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