Cuscuta babylonica

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Cuscuta babylonica
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Solanales
Family: Convolvulaceae
Genus: Cuscuta
Species:
C. babylonica
Binomial name
Cuscuta babylonica
Subspecies

Cuscuta babylonica var. elegans (Boiss. & Balansa) Engelm.[2]

Synonyms
  • Cuscuta elegans Boiss. & Balansa[3] (syn. of C. babylonica var. elegans)

Cuscuta babylonica is a species of parasitic plants in the morning glory family, Convolvulaceae. It is found in Iraq and Turkmenistan.

The plant shows supernumerary chromosomes which are holocentric during meiosis.[4]

It is a parasite of Carthamus glaucus.[5]

References

  1. ^ Choisy, Jacques Denys (Denis) Cusc. 174, t. 1, f. 1.
  2. ^ Engelm. Trans. Acad. Sci. St. Louis 1(3): 461 1859
  3. ^ Boiss. & Balansa Diagn. Pl. Orient., ser. 2, 3: 129 1856
  4. ^ Supernumerary chromosomes and their behaviour in meiosis of the holocentric Cuscuta babylonica Choisy. BATIA PAZY, Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society, Volume123, Issue2, February 1997, Pages 173-176, doi:10.1111/j.1095-8339.1997.tb01411.x
  5. ^ The effect of Cuscuta babylonica Aucher (Cuscuta) parasitism on the phenolic contents of Carthamus glaucus Bieb.subsp. glaucus. Hilal SURMUŞ ASAN, Hasan Çetin ÖZEN, Iğdır Univ. J. Inst. Sci. & Tech. 6(4): 31-39, 2016 (link Archived 2018-03-27 at the Wayback Machine)


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