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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-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Vines,</b> parasitic, with threadlike stems. <b>Leaves</b> reduced to minute scales, spirally arranged, glabrous or pubescent. <b>Inflorescences</b> spikes [panicles or racemes], rarely reduced to single flower. <b>Flowers</b> bisexual, sessile or shortly pedicellate, subtended by bract and 2 bracteoles; tepals persistent at apex of accrescent floral tube that surrounds fruit, greenish white or whitish, outermost row similar to bracts, innermost row larger; stamens 9 (or 6), anthers 2-locular, anthers of outer 6 stamens introrse, of inner 3 extrorse; staminodes 3 (or 6); ovary globose. <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.
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|genus=Cassytha
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