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Taxon:  Cuscuta europaea L.



Summary
Genus:
Cuscuta
Family:
Convolvulaceae
Tribe:
Cuscuteae
Nomen number:
409853
Place of publication:
Sp. pl. 1:124. 1753
Verified:
02/02/1998 ARS Systematic Botanists.
Accessions:
0 (0  active, 0  available) in National Plant Germplasm System. 
Other conspecific taxa
Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
No images
Reference(s)
  1. Aldén, B., S. Ryman & M. Hjertson. Våra kulturväxters namn - ursprung och användning. Formas, Stockholm (Handbook on Swedish cultivated and utility plants, their names and origin). 2009 Note:
    • based on Alden, B. & S. Ryman. 2005-: SKUD (Swedish Utility and Cultivated Plants Database)
    • http://www.skud.info
  2. BernhardSmith, A. Poisonous plants of all countries, 2nd ed. 1923 Note: poisonous
  3. Botanical Society of the British Isles. BSBI taxon database (on-line resource). http://rbg-web2.rbge.org.uk/BSBI/taxonsearch.php
  4. Cooper, M. R. & A. W. Johnson. Poisonous plants and fungi in Britain: animal and human poisoning. 1998 Note: poisonous
  5. Davis, P. H., ed. Flora of Turkey and the east Aegean islands. 1965-1988
  6. Erhardt, W. et al. Der große Zander: Enzyklopädie der Pflanzennamen. 2008
  7. Haines, A. & T. F. Vining. Flora of Maine: a manual for identification of native and naturalized vascular plants of Maine. 1998
  8. Hnatiuk, R. J. Census of Australian vascular plants. Australian Flora and Fauna Series No. 11. 1990
  9. Komarov, V. L. et al., eds. Flora SSSR. 1934-1964
  10. McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2. 2000 Note: American Herbal Products Association, Silver Spring, MD
  11. Pammel, L. H. Manual of poisonous plants. 1911 Note: poisonous
  12. Quézel, P. & S. Santa. Nouvelle flore de l'Algerie. 1962-1963
  13. Tutin, T. G. et al., eds. Flora europaea. 1964-1980
  14. Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. Flora of China (English edition). 1994- http://www.efloras.org/browse.aspx?flora_id=2
  15. Yuncker, T. G. 1965. Cuscuta. North American flora ser. 1, 1905-1957; ser. 2, 1954-1972 ser. 2, 4:39.
Common names
English
European dodder –
greater dodder –
German
europäische Seide –
Nessel-Seide –
Swedish
nässelsnärja –
Distribution
Native
Africa
  • NORTHERN AFRICA: Algeria
Asia-Temperate
  • CAUCASUS: Russian Federation-Ciscaucasia [Ciscaucasia], Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Russian Federation [Dagestan]
  • CHINA: China [Gansu, Heilongjiang, Nei Monggol, Qinghai, Shaanxi, Shanxi, Sichuan, Xinjiang, Xizang, Yunnan]
  • MIDDLE ASIA: Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
  • RUSSIAN FAR EAST: Russian Federation [Primorye, Sakhalin]
  • SIBERIA: Russian Federation-Western Siberia [Western Siberia], Russian Federation-Eastern Siberia [Eastern Siberia]
  • WESTERN ASIA: Turkey
Europe
  • EAST EUROPE: Russian Federation-European part [European part], Belarus, Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia, Moldova, Ukraine
  • MIDDLE EUROPE: Austria, Belgium, Switzerland, Czechoslovakia, Germany, Hungary, Netherlands, Poland
  • NORTHERN EUROPE: Denmark, Finland, Norway
  • SOUTHEASTERN EUROPE: Former Yugoslavia, Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, Italy, Romania
  • SOUTHWESTERN EUROPE: Spain, France
Naturalized
Northern America
  • NORTHEASTERN U.S.A.: United States [Maine]
Economic Uses
Medicines
Vertebrate poisons
mammals (fide Cooper & Johnson ed2; BernhardSmith; Pammel) –


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