Cuscuta pentagona

Cuscuta pentagona

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Solanales
Classification System: APG IV Superregnum: Eukaryota Regnum: Plantae Cladus: Angiosperms Cladus: Eudicots Cladus: Core eudicots Cladus: Asterids Cladus: Lamiids Ordo: Solanales

Familia: Convolvulaceae
Tribus: Cuscuteae
Genus: Cuscuta
Subgenus: C. subg. Grammica

Species: Cuscuta pentagona

Name

Cuscuta pentagona Engelm. Amer. J. Sci. Arts 43:340, t. 6, figs. 22–24. 1842

Holotype: Ferdinand Rugel - s.n. (MO/BC: MO-176238/A:2757730)

Type locality: On Euphorbia or Tragia, Norfolk, Virginia

Synonyms

• Homotypic
  • Cuscuta arvensis var. pentagona (Engelm.) Engelm., Trans. Acad. Sci. St. Louis 1: 494 (1859).
  • Cuscuta pentagona var. typica Yunck., Illinois Biol. Monogr. 6: 140 (1921), not validly publ.
  • Grammica pentagona (Engelm.) W.A.Weber, SouthW. Naturalist 18: 319 (1973).
• Heterotypic
  • Cuscuta pentagona var. microcalyx Engelm., Amer. J. Sci. Arts 45: 76 (1843).
  • Cuscuta arvensis var. microcalyx (Engelm.) Engelm. in A.Gray, Man. Bot. N. States, ed. 2: 337 (1856).
  • Cuscuta globularis Nutt. ex Engelm., Trans. Acad. Sci. St. Louis 1: 494 (1859), pro syn.

Distribution

Native distribution areas:

Continental: Northern America USA (Alabama, Arkansas, Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, District of Columbia, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Iowa, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Mississippi, Montana, North Carolina, North Dakota, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, Nevada, New York, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Washington State, Wisconsin, West Virginia), Canada (British Columbia, Manitoba, New Brunswick, Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Quebec, Saskatchewan), Jamaica, Puerto Rico, Cuba, Haiti, Dominican Republic, Belize, Mexico (Baja California Norte, Baja California Sur, Chihuahua, Coahuila, Ciudad de Mexico, Guanajuato, Guerrero, Hidalgo, Jalisco, Mexico State, Michoacan, Nuevo Leon, San Luis Potosi, Sinaloa, Sonora, Tamaulipas, Tlaxcala, Zacatecas) References: Brummitt, R.K. 2001. TDWG – World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, 2nd Edition

References

Primary references

• Engelmann, G. 1843. A Monography of North American Cuscutineae. American Journal of Science and Arts 43(2): 333–345. BHL Botanicus. Reference page. : 43:340, t. 6, figs. 22–24. BHL

Links

• Govaerts, R. et al. 2019. Cuscuta pentagona in Kew Science Plants of the World Online. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published online. Accessed: 2019 November 08. Reference page. 
• Hassler, M. 2019. Cuscuta pentagona. World Plants: Synonymic Checklists of the Vascular Plants of the World In: Roskovh, Y., Abucay, L., Orrell, T., Nicolson, D., Bailly, N., Kirk, P., Bourgoin, T., DeWalt, R.E., Decock, W., De Wever, A., Nieukerken, E. van, Zarucchi, J. & Penev, L., eds. 2019. Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life. Published online. Accessed: 2019 November 08. Reference page. 
• International Plant Names Index. 2019. Cuscuta pentagona. Published online. Accessed: November 08 2019.
• Tropicos.org 2019. Cuscuta pentagona. Missouri Botanical Garden. Published online. Accessed: 08 November 2019.
• USDA, ARS, Germplasm Resources Information Network. Cuscuta pentagona in the Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN), U.S. Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service. Accessed: June 4, 2019.

Vernacular names

English: Fiveangled dodder

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