Cuscuta babylonica

Cuscuta babylonica
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Clade:	Asterids
Order:	Solanales
Family:	Convolvulaceae
Genus:	Cuscuta
Species:	C. babylonica
Binomial name
	Cuscuta babylonica; Aucher ex Choisy
Subspecies
	Cuscuta babylonica var. elegans (Boiss. & Balansa) Engelm.
Synonyms
	Cuscuta elegans Boiss. & Balansa (syn. of C. babylonica var. elegans);

Short description: Species of flowering plant

Cuscuta babylonica is a species of parasitic plants in the morning glory family, Convolvulaceae. It is found in Iraq and Turkmenistan.

The plant shows supernumerary chromosomes which are holocentric during meiosis.^[4]

It is a parasite of Carthamus glaucus.^[5]

References

↑ Choisy, Jacques Denys (Denis) Cusc. 174, t. 1, f. 1.
↑ Engelm. Trans. Acad. Sci. St. Louis 1(3): 461 1859
↑ Boiss. & Balansa Diagn. Pl. Orient., ser. 2, 3: 129 1856
↑ Supernumerary chromosomes and their behaviour in meiosis of the holocentric Cuscuta babylonica Choisy. BATIA PAZY, Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society, Volume123, Issue2, February 1997, Pages 173-176, doi:10.1111/j.1095-8339.1997.tb01411.x
↑ The effect of Cuscuta babylonica Aucher (Cuscuta) parasitism on the phenolic contents of Carthamus glaucus Bieb.subsp. glaucus. Hilal SURMUŞ ASAN, Hasan Çetin ÖZEN, Iğdır Univ. J. Inst. Sci. & Tech. 6(4): 31-39, 2016 (link )