Cuscuta triumvirati
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Cuscuta triumvirati is a plant from the genus silk ( Cuscuta ) in the family of wind plants (Convolvulaceae). Like all species in this genus, it is a full parasite .
description
Cuscuta triumvirati has thin to moderately thick stems .
The flowers are reddish in color, about 3 to 4 mm in size and five-fold. They stand on flower stalks that are as long or almost as long as the flowers themselves. The chalice is shorter than the corolla tube . The calyx lobes are broadly ovate, blunt and do not overlap. The corolla lobes are broadly ovate, blunt, protruding and about as long as the bell-shaped corolla tube. The anthers protrude beyond the crown. The slightly fringed scales at the base of the corolla tube are egg-shaped and do not reach the stamens . The thin stylus , including the stigma, is longer than the depressed ovary .
The number of chromosomes is 2n = 14.
Occurrence
This species occurs in the Sierra Nevada in southern Spain, in Morocco and in Algeria . It mostly parasitizes on Erinacea anthyllis and on other butterflies of the genera Cytisus and Genista . It inhabits altitudes of (700 to) 1300 to 3100 m.
literature
- Naomi Feinbrun: Cuscuta. In: TG Tutin, VH Heywood, NA Burges, DM Moore, DH Valentine, SM Walters, DA Webb (eds.): Flora Europaea . Volume 3: Diapensiaceae to Myoporaceae . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1972, ISBN 0-521-08489-X , pp. 76 (English, limited preview in Google Book search).
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Miguel Ángel García: Cuscuta . In: Santiago Castroviejo, C. Andrés, M. Arista, MP Fernández Piedra, MJ Gallego, PL Ortiz, C. Romero Zarco, FJ Salgueiro, S. Silvestre, Alejandro Quintanar (eds.): Flora Ibérica. Plantas Vasculares de la Península Ibérica e Islas Baleares . Vol. XI. Gentianaceae - Boraginaceae . Real Jardín Botánico, CSIC, Madrid 2012, ISBN 978-84-00-09415-7 , p. 305-307 ( floraiberica.es [PDF]).
- ^ Alain Dobignard, Cyrille Chatelain: Index de la flore d'Afrique du Nord. Volume 3: Dicotyledoneae: Balsaminaceae – Euphorbiaceae , Éditions des conservatoire et jardin botaniques, Genève 2011, ISBN 978-2-8277-0124-7 , p. 349 ( online ).