Cuscuta epilinum Weihe

Stems slender.. Flowers in dense clusters, 8–10 mm. in diameter when in fruit.. Calyx-lobes abruptly acute, enveloping the corolla rather loosely.. Corolla 3–3.5 mm. long (only 2 mm. in some poorly developed flowers); lobes shorter than the corolla-tube, broadly triangular, abruptly acute.. Stamens shorter than the lobes.. Scales very thin, about half as long as the tube, often bifid, apically sparsely fringed.. Styles very short, half as long as the stigmas or less, together at first 0.5 mm. long, becoming about 1 mm.long.. Stigmas short, about 0.25 mm. thick.. Mature capsule depressed-globose, about 3 mm. in diameter, thin-walled.