View source for Cuscuta suaveolens

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|accepted_name=Cuscuta suaveolens
|accepted_authority=Seringe
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Ann. Sci. Phys. Nat. Lyon
|place=3: 519. 1840
|year=1840
}}
|common_names=Fimbriate dodder
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=W
|label=Weedy
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|code=I
|label=Introduced
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|hierarchy=Convolvulaceae;Cuscuta;Cuscuta subg. Grammica;Cuscuta suaveolens
|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 suaveolens]]</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> loose, racemiform or corymbiform; bracts at base of clusters 1, at base of pedicels 0 or 1, ovate, membranous, margins entire, apex acute. <b>Pedicels</b> 2–5(–7 mm). <b>Flowers</b> 5-merous, 3–5 mm, membranous, not papillate; calyx light brown to reddish, cupulate-turbinate, 1/2–3/4 corolla tube length, divided 1/2 its length, not reticulate or shiny, lobes triangular-ovate, bases scarcely overlapping, margins entire, revolute, midvein not carinate, apex obtuse to subacute; corolla white, drying creamy or reddish, 2.8–4.7 mm, tube campanulate, 2–3 mm, not saccate, lobes erect to spreading, triangular-ovate, 1/2 corolla tube length, margins entire, apex acute, inflexed; infrastaminal scales oblong-ovate, 1.8–2.8 mm, equaling corolla tube length, bridged at 0.8–1.4 mm, rounded, uniformly densely fimbriate, fimbriae 0.3–0.5 mm; stamens slightly exserted, shorter than corolla lobes; filaments 0.2–0.4 mm; anthers 0.6–0.8 × 0.5–0.6 mm; styles filiform, 1.6–2.5 mm, equaling or longer than ovary. <b>Capsules</b> globose-ovoid, 2.5–3.5 × 2.5–3.5 mm, not thickened around relatively small interstylar aperture, not translucent, surrounded by withered corolla, indehiscent. <b>Seeds</b> 2–4, obcompressed, subglobose to broadly ellipsoid, 1.3–2 × 1–1.7 mm, hilum region subterminal.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering Jul–Oct.
|habitat=Hosts: Medicago sativa, Trifolium.
|elevation=20–1000 m.
|distribution=Ala.;Calif.;Ohio;S.Dak.;Tex.;South America;introduced also in Europe.
|introduced=true
|discussion=<p>Cuscuta suaveolens is an ephemeral weed associated with the cultivation of forage legumes; it has not been collected in recent decades.</p>
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name=Cuscuta suaveolens
|authority=Seringe
|rank=species
|parent rank=subgenus
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|family=Convolvulaceae
|phenology=Flowering Jul–Oct.
|habitat=Hosts: Medicago sativa, Trifolium.
|elevation=20–1000 m.
|distribution=Ala.;Calif.;Ohio;S.Dak.;Tex.;South America;introduced also in Europe.
|introduced=true
|reference=None
|publication title=Ann. Sci. Phys. Nat. Lyon
|publication year=1840
|special status=Weedy;Introduced
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|genus=Cuscuta
|subgenus=Cuscuta subg. Grammica
|species=Cuscuta suaveolens
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