Cuscuta reflexa Roxb.

Stems yellow or yellowish green, stout, 2-3 mm in diam., with brown spots. Inflorescences lateral, few to many flowered, in racemes or panicles 1.5-3 cm, branched; bracts and bractoles scalelike. Pedicel 2-4 mm, together with peduncle, brown spotted or tuberculate. Calyx cupular; sepals 5, broadly ovate, equal, 2-2.5 mm, with a few tubercles abaxially, apex rotund. Corolla white or creamy, fragrant, tubular, 5-9 mm; lobes early deciduous, often reflexed, sometimes erect, triangular-ovate, shorter than tube. Stamens inserted at throat; filaments shorter than anthers or absent; anthers elliptic-ovate; scales oblong, reaching middle of tube, short and densely fimbriate. Ovary ovate-conical. Style 1, very short or absent; stigma divergent or erect, elongated, ligulate, longer than style. Capsule conical-globose, subquadrate when mature, 5-10 mm in diam., circumscissile. Seeds 1-4, dark brown, oblong, ca. 4 mm. 2n = 28, 32, 36, 42.

On Achyranthes, Adhatoda, Apluda, Aqui-legia, Calotropis, Capparis, Carissa, Citrus, Clero-dendron, Cocculus, Coffea, Duranta, Fragaria, Lavatera, Melia, Nerium, Parkinsonia, Peristrophe, Thevetia, Viburnum, Zizyphus (YUNCKER).In Java moreover on Artemisia vulgaris L., Boehmeria clidemioides MIQ., Casuarina, Cestrum, Engelhardtia spicata Bl., Euphorbia rothiana SPR., Fuchsia coccinea AIT., Justicia gendarussa L., Maoutia diver sifolia (BL.) WEDD., Polygonum chinense L., Rubus horsfieldii MiQ., Stachytarpheta; sometimes in dense masses, covering whole tree-crowns, or covering lower vegetation like a net; (1000-)1500-2700 m.

Plants can grow from seed.