BioImages: The Virtual Field-Guide (UK)
Cuscuta epithymum (L.) L. (Dodder)
Records (and photo sets)
| Taxon | Summary | Date | Vice-county | Country |  |
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| Cuscuta epithymum | 10 June 2004 | East Kent | England | 2 | ||
| Cuscuta epithymum | Plant | 27 June 2002 | Dorset | England | 3 | |
| Cuscuta epithymum | Plant | 25 June 2002 | Dorset | England | 3 | |
| Cuscuta epithymum | Plant | 28 June 1998 | Surrey | England | 5 | |
| Cuscuta epithymum | Plant | 2 August 1971 | South Devon | England | 1 | |
| Cuscuta epithymum | Plant | 17 September 1970 | East Sussex | England | 1 | |
| Cuscuta epithymum | Plant | 3 August 1970 | Surrey | England | 1 | |
| Cuscuta epithymum | Plant | 1 August 1970 | Surrey | England | 2 |
Suggested Literature
Cuscuta epithymum may be covered by literature listed under:
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BIOTA (living things) |
Eukaryota (eukaryotes) |
PLANTAE (plants) |
SPERMATOPHYTA (vascular plants) |
MAGNOLIOPSIDA (flowering plants) |
MAGNOLIIDAE (dicotyledonous flowering plants) |
Feeding and other inter-species relationships
Cuscuta epithymum is associated with:
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Calluna vulgaris - Heather (Ericaceae) | causes gall of | 
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Redfern, M. & Shirley, P., 2002 | |
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Ulex - gorses (Fabaceae) | causes gall of |
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Redfern, M. & Shirley, P., 2002 | |
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haustorium | Magnoliidae - dicotyledonous flowering plants | haustorium parasitises stem | Stace, C., 1997 Clapham, A.R., Tutin, T.G. & Moore, D.M., 1985 |
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haustorium | Calluna vulgaris - Heather (Ericaceae) | haustorium parasitises stem | Stace, C., 1997 Clapham, A.R., Tutin, T.G. & Moore, D.M., 1985 |
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haustorium | Ulex - gorses (Fabaceae) | haustorium parasitises stem | Stace, C., 1997 Clapham, A.R., Tutin, T.G. & Moore, D.M., 1985 |
Associated with Cuscuta epithymum:
| stem | stem is galled by larva | Smicronyx coecus - a weevil (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) |
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Morris, M.G., 2002 Bullock, J.A., 1992 |
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| stem | stem is galled by larva | Smicronyx jungermanniae - a weevil (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) |
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Morris, M.G., 2002 Bullock, J.A., 1992 |
Cuscuta epithymum may be associated with more taxa listed at higher taxonomic level
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MAGNOLIOPSIDA (flowering plants) |
MAGNOLIIDAE (dicotyledonous flowering plants) |
Cuscuta (dodders) |
References
| Bullock, J.A., 1992 | Host Plants of British Beetles: A List of Recorded Associations |
| Clapham, A.R., Tutin, T.G. & Moore, D.M., 1985 | Flora of the British Isles |
| Morris, M.G., 2002 | True Weevils (Part I): Family Curculionidae, subfamilies Raymondionyminae to Smicronychinae |
| Redfern, M. & Shirley, P., 2002 | British Plant Galls - Identification of galls on plants and fungi |
| Stace, C., 1997 | New Flora of the British Isles (Ed 2) |
