Herbarium specimen: Cuscuta epithymum
Taxon: | Cuscutaceae: Cuscuta epithymum (L.) L. ("Dodder") |
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Filed in taxon folder: | Cuscutaceae: Cuscuta epithymum (L.) L. ("Dodder") |
Collected by: | Mr James Groves |
Collection date: | 7/1925 |
Locality: | Great Britain, VC10 Isle of Wight, Newport, SZ48 |
ex herb: | Henry & James Groves Mr Harold Stuart Thompson |
exchanged: | Watson Botanical Exchange Club |
Institution: | University of Birmingham (BIRM) |
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fruits/flowers: | mature flowers |
notes: | C. epithymum on Flax [Linum] Cuscuta [Dodders] are leafless and rootless total parasites, which do great damage to Clover, Flax and other crops. |
Inferred details are marked.
Associated records
Other specimen entries from this sheet.taxon | locality | collectors | date | institution | ||
+ | Cuscuta epithymum | GB, VC9,VC11, Bournemouth | L Hamilton King | 8/1859 | BIRM |
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Documented by hallucigenia on 12th February 2010.