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Herbarium specimen: Cuscuta pentagona

Taxon:Cuscuta pentagona Engelm.
Collected by:James R Burkhalter
Collection date:17/6/1977
Locality:Florida (USA), Escambia County, Santa Rosa Island, W. end of Santa Rosa island, at Gulf Is Nat Ssh. S of Ft Pickens Rd, about 0.6 mi W of Battery Langdon. Dunes. Inland from primary dune ridge. Soil white sand.
Institution:Florida State University (FSU)
Accession number:91017
Image:Cuscuta pentagona herbarium specimen from Santa Rosa Island, Escambia County in 1977 by James R Burkhalter.
collector's number:5314
fruits/flowers:mature flowers
notes:Parasitic on Siphonychia erecta. Stems orange. Fls cream-coloured. Common. Also observed on Ceratiola ericoides, Asclepias humistrata, Seymeria cassioides.

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Documented by johned on 22nd August 2015.

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