Citation: Engelm., Trans. Acad. Sci. St Louis 1:512 (1859) var. tasmanica.

Synonymy: Cuscuta tasmanica

Common name: Tasmanian dodder, golden dodder.

Description:
Stems slender, pale-yellow; inflorescence axillary, subtended by a concave triangular obtuse bract 1-1.5 mm long.

Flowers 5-merous, in loose few-flowered clusters; pedicels thick, as long as or longer than the flowers, 3-6 mm long; calyx more or less equalling the corolla tube, lobes unequal, oblong to ovate-oblong, obtuse, much longer than the tube; corolla 3-4 mm long, lobes oblong-ovate, obtuse, equalling or longer than the tube; stamens with filaments 0.3-0.7 mm long, more or less equalling the anthers; infrastaminal scales oblong, equalling or exceeding the corolla tube, abundantly fimbriate, fimbriae up to 0.5 mm long; styles 1-1.5 mm long, stigmas capitate.

Capsule depressed-globular, 3.5-3.8 mm diam., with an interstylar opening more or less 1 mm long, not circumscissile dehiscence; seeds 1.6-2 mm long.

Distribution:  S.Aust.: SE.   W.Aust.; N.S.W.; Vic.; Tas. Conservation status: native Flowering time: mainly Dec. — May.

SA Distribution Map based on current data relating to specimens held in the State Herbarium of South Australia

Biology: Parasitic on plants of saline coastal areas e.g. species of Wilsonia, Parapholis incurva and Chenopodium.

Taxonomic notes: C. tasmanica Engelm. var. brevistyla Yuncker, Mem. Torrey Bot. Cl. 18:143 (1932) has been recorded from 2.5 km south of Martin Washpool Conservation Park (SE). It differs from the type variety in having much shorter styles.

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