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Cuscuta (dodders)

Subtaxa

Rank Taxon #photos #macrophotos #webs
Species Cuscuta campestris Yuncker (Yellow Dodder)     5
Species Cuscuta epilinum Weihe (Flax Dodder)     1
Species Cuscuta epithymum (L.) L. (Dodder) 13 5 7
Species Cuscuta europaea L. (Greater Dodder)     5

Suggested Literature

Cuscuta may be covered by literature listed under:

BIOTA
(living things)
Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)
PLANTAE
(plants)
SPERMATOPHYTA
(vascular plants)
MAGNOLIOPSIDA
(flowering plants)
MAGNOLIIDAE
(dicotyledonous flowering plants)

Feeding and other inter-species relationships

Associated with Cuscuta:

stem stem is galled by larva Smicronyx jungermanniae - a weevil (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) UK/Ireland Questionable Morris, M.G., 2002

Cuscuta may be associated with more taxa listed at higher taxonomic level

MAGNOLIOPSIDA
(flowering plants)
MAGNOLIIDAE
(dicotyledonous flowering plants)

References

Morris, M.G., 2002 True Weevils (Part I): Family Curculionidae, subfamilies Raymondionyminae to Smicronychinae

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