View source for Cuscuta europaea

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|accepted_name=Cuscuta europaea
|accepted_authority=Linnaeus
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Sp. Pl.
|place=1: 124. 1753
|year=1753
}}
|common_names=Greater dodder
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=W
|label=Weedy
}}{{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=I
|label=Introduced
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|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Convolvulaceae;Cuscuta;Cuscuta subg. Cuscuta;Cuscuta europaea
|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. Cuscuta]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Cuscuta europaea]]</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>yellowish to reddish, medium to coarse. <b>Inflores</b>cences: bracts ovate to lanceolate, membranous, margins entire, apex obtuse to acute. <b>Pedicels</b> 0–1.5 mm. <b>Flowers</b> 4(or 5)-merous, 3–5 mm, fleshy; papillae absent; calyx creamy yellow to brownish, cupulate to obconic, shorter than to equaling corolla tube length, divided 1/2–3/4 its length, not reticulate or shiny, lobes ovate to triangular-ovate, bases not overlapping, margins entire, apex obtuse to rounded; corolla white or pink, drying yellow-brown, campanulate to urceolate, 2.2–4.7 mm, tube 1.7–3.3 mm, not saccate, lobes usually erect, sometimes spreading, triangular-ovate, 1/3–1/2 corolla tube length, margins entire, apex obtuse to truncate, straight; infrastaminal scales oblong, often 2-fid, 1–1.2 mm, 1/2 corolla tube length, bridged at 0.4–0.6 mm, short-fimbriate apically, fimbriae 0.1–0.3 mm; stamens included, shorter than corolla lobes; filaments 0.2–0.5 mm; anthers 0.2–0.5 × 0.2–0.4 mm; styles terete; style plus stigmas 0.6–1.2 mm, shorter than ovary; stigmas cylindric to clavate, 0.3–0.6 mm, shorter than to equaling styles. <b>Capsules</b> ovoid, globose-conic, or pyriform, 1.6–4 × 2–4 mm, not thickened or raised around interstylar aperture, ± translucent, capped by withered corolla. <b>Seeds</b> 2–4, angled, subglobose, broadly ellipsoid, or ovoid, 1.2–1.5 × 0.9–1.3 mm, hilum region terminal. <b>2n</b> = 14.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering Jul–Sep.
|habitat=it can parasitize numerous other hosts both herbaceous and woody.
|elevation=20–200 m.
|distribution=Maine;N.Y.;Europe;introduced also in South America;Asia (China;Japan);n Africa.
|introduced=true
|tables=
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name=Cuscuta europaea
|authority=Linnaeus
|rank=species
|parent rank=subgenus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Convolvulaceae
|phenology=Flowering Jul–Sep.
|habitat=it can parasitize numerous other hosts both herbaceous and woody.
|elevation=20–200 m.
|distribution=Maine;N.Y.;Europe;introduced also in South America;Asia (China;Japan);n Africa.
|introduced=true
|reference=None
|publication title=Sp. Pl.
|publication year=1753
|special status=Weedy;Introduced
|source xml=https://bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation/src/master/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V14/V14_472.xml
|genus=Cuscuta
|subgenus=Cuscuta subg. Cuscuta
|species=Cuscuta europaea
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