Cuscuta megalocarpa Rydb.

  • Authority

    New York Botanical Garden. Herbarium of Dr. Per Axel Rydberg. Purchased, 1899. Contributions from the New York Botanical Garden.

  • Family

    Cuscutaceae

  • Scientific Name

    Cuscuta megalocarpa Rydb.

  • Description

    Species Description - Stem stout, usually over 1 mm. in diameter. Flowers in dense globular clusters: pedicels very short, at most 2 mm. long: calyx gamosepalous, lobes rounded, scarcely 1 mm. long: corolla about 3 mm. high and broad, lobes broadly triangular, acutish, about 1 mm. long, with incurved tip; fringed scales attached near the bottom, equalling about half the corolla-tube, deeply 2-lobed, and fringed only in the open sinuses: stamens about as long as the lobes of the corolla, filaments subulate, about twice as long as the rounded anther: styles distinct, short, stigmas capitate: capsule 5-6 mm. in diameter, acute-globose, about 4-seeded: seeds about 2.5 mm. long and 2 mm. broad, finely muricate.

  • Discussion

    A plant parasitic on willows and other shrubs, at an altitude of about 2000 m.

    Colorado : Cucharas Creek, near La Veta, 1900, F. K. Vreeland, 670.

    Wyoming: Dayton, Sheridan Co., 1899, F. Tioccdy, 2278

  • Distribution

    Colorado, Wyoming.

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