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Cuscuta subgen. Cuscuta
Cuscuta
Cuscuta (/kʌsˈkjuːtə/), commonly known as dodder or amarbel, is a genus of over 201 species of yellow, orange, or red (rarely green) parasitic plants. Formerly treated as the only genus in the family Cuscutaceae, it now is accepted as belonging in the morning glory family, Convolvulaceae, on the basis of the work of the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group. The genus is found throughout the temperate and tropical regions of the world, with the greatest species diversity in...
3 branches of this group, most-observed first
Cuscuta sect. Cuscuta
sectionCuscuta
Cuscuta sect. Epistigma
sectionEpistigma
Cuscuta sect. Babylonicae
sectionBabylonicae
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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In the old herbals & bestiaries
Latin Herbal
1484 · p.95
Latin Herbal with German Synonyms
1484 · p.123
Herbarius
1485 · p.96
Latin Herbal with German Synonyms
1486 · p.96
Herbarius latinus (with Dutch synonyms)
1486 · p.93
Ortus sanitatis
1491 · p.146
Ortus sanitatis
1491 · p.147
Herbal of Virtues
1499 · p.95
The Book of Health: The Art of Distillation
Brunschwig, Hieronymus · 1505 · p.248
The Great Herbary with all the figures of the herbs
1532 · p.96
Notable Commentaries on the History of Plants
Leonhart Fuchs · 1542 · p.382
On the Names of Plants
Hieronymus Bock (Tragus) · 1552 · p.882
In the stacks
Searching the stacks…
Every page naming Cuscuta in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 1598147.