Cuscuta pentagona Engelm.

Fiveangled dodder (en), Cuscute champêtre (fr), Cuscute des champs (fr)

Species

Angiosperms > Solanales > Convolvulaceae > Cuscuta

Characteristics

Fls 5-merous, sessile or short-pedicellate in compact glomerules; cal about equaling the cor-tube, its lobes very broadly ovate or depressed, often broader than long; cor-lobes 1 mm, lanceolate to triangular, acute, about as long as the tube, spreading to reflexed; styles 0.5–1 mm; stigma capitate; fr depressed-globose, thin-walled, mostly 2-seeded, cupped at base by the withered cor and strongly protruding from it, not evidently thickened around the styles; 2n=56. Throughout the U.S. and almost cosmop., living on a wide variety of hosts. (C. arvensis; C. campestris)
Life form annual
Growth form herb
Growth support climber parasite
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Hardiness (USDA) 5-11

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Images

Leaf

Cuscuta pentagona leaf picture by Catalin Gruia (cc-by-sa)

Fruit

Cuscuta pentagona fruit picture by Jacques Monchamp (cc-by-sa)

Distribution

Cuscuta pentagona world distribution map, present in Afghanistan, Albania, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba, Burkina Faso, Bangladesh, Bulgaria, Bahamas, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Belarus, Belize, Bhutan, Botswana, Canada, Switzerland, China, Cuba, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Germany, Dominican Republic, Eritrea, Spain, Estonia, Ethiopia, Fiji, France, Micronesia (Federated States of), United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Georgia, Guinea, Guadeloupe, Greece, Croatia, Haiti, Hungary, India, Israel, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kyrgyzstan, Lebanon, Liberia, Lesotho, Lithuania, Latvia, Morocco, Madagascar, Mexico, North Macedonia, Martinique, Mauritius, Namibia, Niue, Netherlands, New Zealand, Poland, Puerto Rico, Korea (Democratic People's Republic of), Portugal, Qatar, Réunion, Romania, Russian Federation, Sudan, Sao Tome and Principe, Slovakia, Slovenia, eSwatini, Chad, Togo, Thailand, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Trinidad and Tobago, Turkey, Tanzania, United Republic of, Uganda, Ukraine, United States Minor Outlying Islands, United States of America, Uzbekistan, Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of), Viet Nam, Yemen, South Africa, Zambia, and Zimbabwe

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:72922-2
WFO ID wfo-0001297230
COL ID 32LWK
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID 159617
Wikipedia (EN) Link
Wikipedia (FR) Link

Synonyms

Grammica pentagona Cuscuta pentagona var. microcalyx Cuscuta arvensis var. pentagona Cuscuta pentagona var. pentagona Cuscuta arvensis var. microcalyx Cuscuta pentagona var. typica Cuscuta pentagona