View source for Cuscuta tuberculata

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|accepted_name=Cuscuta tuberculata
|accepted_authority=Brandegee
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Univ. Calif. Publ. Bot.
|place=3: 389. 1909
|year=1909
}}
|common_names=Tubercle dodder
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=W
|label=Weedy
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Convolvulaceae;Cuscuta;Cuscuta subg. Grammica;Cuscuta tuberculata
|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 tuberculata]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 14
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|treatment_page=
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Stems </b>yellow-orange, filiform. <b>Inflorescences</b> loose, umbelliform-racemiform; bracts at base of clusters 1, at base of peduncles 0(or 1), ovate-lanceolate, membranous, margins entire, apex acute. <b>Pedicels</b> 2–3(–5) mm. <b>Flowers</b> 5-merous, 2.5–4 mm, membranous, papillate, especially at base of corolla tube; calyx yellow, cupulate-angular, 1/3–1/2 corolla tube length, divided ± to base, not or finely reticulate, ± glossy, lobes triangular to lanceolate, bases not overlapping, margins entire, midvein carinate and/or with multicellular protuberances, apex acute to acuminate; corolla white, drying creamy yellow, 2–3.5 mm, tube cylindric, 1.5–2.2 mm, not saccate, lobes erect, triangular-lanceolate, equaling corolla tube length, margins entire, apex acute, straight; infrastaminal scales ovate to oblong, 0.8–1.1 mm, 1/3–1/2 corolla tube length, bridged at 0.5–0.7 mm, rounded, uniformly short-fimbriate, fimbriae 0.2–0.3 mm; stamens barely exserted, shorter than to equaling corolla lobes; filaments 0.4–0.7 mm; anthers 0.5–0.8 × 0.3–0.5 mm; styles filiform, 1.5–3 mm, longer than ovary. <b>Capsules</b> globose, 1.3–2.2 × 1–2.3 mm, slightly thickened and raised around relatively small interstylar aperture, translucent, capped by withered corolla, dehiscence circumscissile. <b>Seeds</b> 2–4, angled or slightly obcompressed, ellipsoid-oblong, 0.6–0.9 × 0.3–0.5 mm, hilum area lateral.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering Aug–Nov.
|habitat=desert and thornscrub.
|elevation=500–1000 m.
|distribution=Ariz.;N.Mex.;Mexico (Baja California;Baja California Sur;Sonora).
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name=Cuscuta tuberculata
|authority=Brandegee
|rank=species
|parent rank=subgenus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Convolvulaceae
|phenology=Flowering Aug–Nov.
|habitat=desert and thornscrub.
|elevation=500–1000 m.
|distribution=Ariz.;N.Mex.;Mexico (Baja California;Baja California Sur;Sonora).
|reference=None
|publication title=Univ. Calif. Publ. Bot.
|publication year=1909
|special status=Weedy
|source xml=
|genus=Cuscuta
|subgenus=Cuscuta subg. Grammica
|species=Cuscuta tuberculata
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