Los Pinitos Dodder (Cuscuta dentatasquamata)
Description
5-merous, 2.6--3.8 mm, fleshy; papillae absent; laticifers not visible; calyx brown-reddish, not reticulate or shiny, campanulate, somewhat longer than the corolla tube, divided 1/3-3/4 the length, lobes not basally overlapping, triangular, carinate, margins entire, apex acute; corolla 2.5--3.4 mm, creamy-yellow when fresh, brown-reddish when dried, the tube 1.2--1.6 mm, campanulate, later saccate, globose, lobes erect to spreading, ca. 1/3 as the tube, triangular, margins entire, apex acute, straight or inflexed; stamens exserted, shorter than the lobes, anthers ovate to broadly-elliptic, 0.3--0.4 -0.25-0.35 mm long, filaments 0.3--0.4 mm; infrastaminal scales 1.1--1.6 mm long, equaling corolla tube, bridged at 0.3-0.6 mm, oblong, truncate, irregularly denticulate or frimbriate distally (3--7 fimbriae), 0.3-0.6 mm long; styles uniformly slender to slightly subulate, 0.6--1.4 mm, equaling or longer than the ovary; stigmas capitate, globose.
Taxonomic tree
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Domain: Eukarya
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Kingdom: Plantae
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Phylum: Magnoliophyta
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Class: Magnoliopsida
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Order: Solanales
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Family: Convolvulaceae
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Genus: Cuscuta
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