Species of flowering plant
Cuscuta babylonica
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Scientific classification
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Kingdom:
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Plantae
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Clade:
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Tracheophytes
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Clade:
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Angiosperms
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Clade:
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Eudicots
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Clade:
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Asterids
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Order:
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Solanales
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Family:
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Convolvulaceae
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Genus:
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Cuscuta
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Species:
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C. babylonica
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Binomial name
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Cuscuta babylonica
Aucher ex Choisy[1]
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Subspecies
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Cuscuta babylonica var. elegans (Boiss. & Balansa) Engelm.[2]
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Synonyms
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- Cuscuta elegans Boiss. & Balansa[3] (syn. of C. babylonica var. elegans)
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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]
- ^ 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 Archived 2018-03-27 at the Wayback Machine)