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Internal ID UUID64405bbab0d0f251182847
Scientific name Cuscuta africana
Authority Krauss ex Engelm.
First published in Trans. Acad. Sci. St. Louis i. (1859) 503.

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Cuscuta myricoides Druce Bot. Exch. Club Brit. Isles Rep. 3: 416 (1913 publ. 1914)

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Arabic حامول أفريقي

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World Flora Online wfo-0001297554
KEW urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:267262-1
The Plant List tro-8501093
Open Tree Of Life 116959
Observations.org 313848
NCBI Taxonomy 413235
IPNI 267262-1
iNaturalist 578535
GBIF 3681066
Elurikkus 663586

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The Evolution of Cytogenetic Traits in Cuscuta (Convolvulaceae), the Genus With the Most Diverse Chromosomes in Angiosperms Ibiapino A, García MA, Amorim B, Baez M, Costea M, Stefanović S, Pedrosa-Harand A Front Plant Sci 01-Apr-2022
PMCID:PMC9011109
doi:10.3389/fpls.2022.842260
PMID:35432411
Mitochondrial genomes of two parasitic Cuscuta species lack clear evidence of horizontal gene transfer and retain unusually fragmented ccmFC genes Anderson BM, Krause K, Petersen G BMC Genomics 12-Nov-2021
PMCID:PMC8588681
doi:10.1186/s12864-021-08105-z
PMID:34772334

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