Citation: Yuncker, Mern. Torrey Bot. Cl. 18:129, fig. 4 (1932).

Synonymy: Cuscuta australis

Common name: None

Description:
Stems slender, pale-brown.

Inflorescence axillary, subtended by a concave ovate-triangular acute to barely obtuse bract 1.5-3 mm long; flowers 4- rarely 3-merous, in relatively compact clusters up to 7 mm diam.; pedicels absent or usually shorter than the flowers, rarely exceeding 3 mm; calyx 1-1.5 mm long, lobes unequal, broadly ovate, acute or obtuse, equal to or longer than the tube; corolla 1.5-2 mm long, lobes triangular to triangular-ovate, obtuse to barely acute, more or less angular, equalling or longer than the tube; stamens with filaments 0.5-0.8 mm long, longer than the anthers; infrastaminal scales oblong to orbicular, equalling or shorter than the corolla tube, with very short fimbriae; styles more or less absent, rarely exceeding 0.2 mm, stigmas capitate.

Capsule depressed-globular, 3-4 mm diam., with interstylar opening 0.3-0.6 mm long; seeds 1.3-1.5 mm long.

	Fruit.
Image source: fig. 527C in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).

Published illustration: Morley & Toelken (1983) Flowering plants in Australia, fig. 160.

Distribution:  S.Aust.: NW, LE, GT, FR, EA.   N.T.; Qld; N.S.W.; Vic. Conservation status: native Flowering time: mainly March — May.

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

Biology: Parasitic on Tribulus, Calotis, Sida and other forbs.

Author: Not yet available