Cuscuta approximata
Cuscuta approximata
Bağboğanotu
Stems thin to medium, pale yellowish to reddish. Inflorescences 5-13 mm diam., usually many-flowered, dense. Flowers 2,5-3,5 mm, sessile or subsessile, white, smooth, 5-merous. Calyx about as long as to longer than corolla tube, campanulate partly membranous, lobes usually as long as tube , triangular to ovate or almost obovate, fleshy or even turgid towards ± acute, pointed apex, often golden-yellow or brownish, shining and finely netted with prominent veins when dry. Corolla lobes shorter than to almost as long as tube, narrowly triangular-ovate to ovate-suborbicular, membranous or somewhat thickened towards shortly apiculate apex, subacute to obtuse, patent in fruit. Anthers scarcely exceeding tube, shorter than to ± as long as narrow filaments. Scales reaching stamens, oblong or spathulate to oblong-ovate or obovate, bifid or simple, shallowly fimbriate at apex. Styles ± as long as or slightly shorter than the thin stigmas, together as long as or generally longer than ovary. Capsule 1,5-2,5 mm, irregularly ovoid or obovoid to depressed-globose. Seeds 1-1,3 mm, 4 per capsule, ovoid, finely scabrous. Fl. 6-8. On various species , annual weeds and hemicryptophytes, sometimes on shrublets, in irrigated and fallow fields, nr s.l.2000 m.
1. Calyx rather membranous, with lobes shortly fleshy at apex var. approximata
1. Calyx lobes partly fleshy with thickened apex longer than membranous part, together longer than tube, generally acute var. macranthera
