Cuscutaceae

Cuscuta campestris

Cuscuta L. Cuscuta campestris YUNCKER Ömür: Tek veya Çok yıllık Yapı: ot Hayat formu: İlk çiçeklenme zamanı: 6 Son çiçeklenme zamanı: 9 Habitat: ekilmiş bir çok otlar ve arsız bitkiler, genellikle su basmış tarllar ve bahçelerde Minimum yükseklik: 100 Maksimum yükseklik: 1500 Endemik: - Element: ? Türkiye dağılımı: K. Türkiye, KD., GB. ve Karasal Anadolu Genel dağılımı: K. Amerika Bulunduğu kareler:A1 A2 A8 B5 B9 B10 C2 C4

C. campestris Yuncker in Mem. Torrey Bot. Club 18:138, f. 14 (1932). Syn: C. arvensis Fiori & Paol., Fl. Anal. ltal. 2:929 (1928) et auct., nom. illegit., non Beyrich (in sched.).   Stems thin to medium, whitish or yellowish. Inflorescences globose, usually many-flowered and dense, sometimes few-flowered and loose, 3-12 mm diam. Pedicels mostly shorter than flowers. Flowers 2-3 mm white, cream or partly reddish, smooth or glandular, 5-merous. Calyx almost as long as corolla tube, lobes ± overlapping, broadly ovate to orbicular, obtuse to acute, somewhat rigid or carinate; tube campanulate, almost as long as lobes. Corolla lobes shorter than to ± as long as campanulate tube, suberect then patent to recurved, triangular, acute and often infiexed at apex. Stamens generally a little shorter than corolla lobes; anthers shorter than to almost as long as subulate filaments. Scales reaching stamens, ovate or oblong-ovate, entire, abundantly fimbriate. Styles c. 1/2 as long as capsule, slender, suberect to divaricate, stigmas subcapitate, together almost as long as ovary. Capsule (1 -5-)2-3 mm long, depressed-globose, dehiscing irregularly. Seeds 1-1.5 mm, 2-4 per capsule. Fl. (5-)6-10. On many herbaceous cultivated and weedy plants, usually in irrigated fields and gardens, 100-1500 m.   Type: Texas [Houston, v(vi?) 1842], Lindheimer 126 (holo. MO!).   N. Turkey, N.E., S.W. & Inner Anatolia, Islands. A1(E) Tekirdağ: Şerköy to Mürefte, A. Baytop (ISTE 13511)! A2(E) Istanbul: nr Djendere, 17 vii 1898, Azn.! A2(A) Bilecik: Osmaneli, on Chondrilla juncea, 100 m, D. 36336! A8 Trabzon: 30 km E. of Trabzon, M. & D.Zohary 25352! B5 Kayseri: Kayseri to lncesu, on Xanthium, 1200 m, D. 32759! B9 Kars: 10 km from Kars to lğdir, Hewit 1970:308! B1O Kars: d. Aralik, S.E. of lğdir D.Ü.Ç., 800 m, D. 47007! C2 Antalya: Yuva, Karagöl, 1000 m, D. 13918! Muğla: 1 km N. of Fethiye, on Verbascum, s.l, Lambert & Thorp 545! C4 Konya: Konya to Çumra, Küçük Köy, on Alhagi maurorum, 980 m, Helbaek 2717! Is: Samos, nr mole of Polycrates at Tigani, on Tribulus terrestris, Ononis spinosa and Salsola kali, Cathorne-Hardy 542 (fide Feinbrun).   Native to N. America, but now almost cosmopolitan. The dimensions of the inflorescence, colour of flowers and size of capsule are variable.