Cuscuta babylonica

Short description: Species of flowering plant

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[1]

Subspecies

Cuscuta babylonica var. elegans (Boiss. & Balansa) Engelm.[2]

Synonyms

* Cuscuta elegans Boiss. & Balansa[3] (syn. of C. babylonica var. elegans)

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

1. ↑ Choisy, Jacques Denys (Denis) Cusc. 174, t. 1, f. 1.
2. ↑ Engelm. Trans. Acad. Sci. St. Louis 1(3): 461 1859
3. ↑ Boiss. & Balansa Diagn. Pl. Orient., ser. 2, 3: 129 1856
4. ↑ 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
5. ↑ 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 )

## External links

* Cuscuta babylonica at Tropicos

Wikidata ☰ Q17398260 entry

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