Cuscuta natalensis Baker

Stems medium to thick, yellowish. Flowers 4-7 mm long, in cymose clusters on perdicels shorter than flowers. Calyx much shorter than corolla tube; calyx lobes triangular-ovate, acute to subacute, tips often spreading. Corolla cylindrical-campanulate; lobes triangular-lanceolate, acute or acuminate, erect to spreading or reflexed, almost as long as tube. Stamens shorter than corolla lobes; filaments ± as long as anthers. Scales oblong, nearly reaching stamens or shorter, fringed with rather short processes, free at apex. Ovary globose; styles slender, ± as long as thickened cylindrical stigmas, both together considerably longer than ovary. Capsule globose, circumscissile near base, intrastylar opening large. Seeds 1.0-1.25 mm long, subglobose; hilum a short oblique line.