Common Name

Australian Dodder

Family

Convolvulaceae

Notes

Parasitic annual twiner, leafless. Stems slender, pale yellow to brown. Flowers small (less than 3mm across), tubular, with 5 lobes, in compact clusters along the stems. Poorly known Vic.

Differs from Cuscuta campestris in that the tips of the flower lobes are blunt and never flexed inwards (needs at least a hand lens to see).

PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Cuscuta~australis

Photography by Kwan, http://www.natureloveyou.sg/ Singapore.