Cuscuta africana Willd.

Stems medium to thick, yellowish. Flowers on pedicels shorter to longer than flowers, in loose to compact clusters. Calyx usually distinctly shorter than corolla tube; lobes triangular-ovate, obtuse to subacute. Corolla campanulate-funnel-shaped; lobes triangular, spreading or reflexed, sometimes suberect, acute or obtuse, usually ± as long as tube. Stamens shorter than corolla lobes; filaments longer than anthers. Scales ± reaching stamens or longer, oblong, with rather small fringes, free at apex. Ovary globose; styles slender, longer than ovary and also longer than thickened oblong-cylindrical stigmas. Capsule globose, irregularly circumscissile near base. Seeds subglobose; hilum terminal, narrow.