Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Cuscuta campestris
parásita de Galápagos














Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Magnoliophyta
Class
Magnoliopsida (= Dicotyledoneae)
Order
Solanales
Family
Convolvulaceae
Genus
Cuscuta
Species
campestris
Taxon category: Accepted
Syn.: Cuscuta gymnocarpa Engelm.
Origin: Native
Map of specimen collection localities or observation records for this species in our collections database.
- Wiggins, I.L. Porter, D.M. (1971) Flora of the Galapagos Islands Standford University Press, Stanford.
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- Austin, D.F. (1982) 165. Convolvulaceae. In: G. Harling & B. Sparre (Eds). Fl. Ecuador 15: 1–98.
- Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew Missouri Botanical Garden (eds.) (2013) The Plant List, Version 1.1. Published on the Internet; http://www.theplantlist.org/ (accessed 1st January).
- Costea, M. García, M. Baute, K. & Stefanovie, S. (2015) (2403) Proposal to conserve Cuscuta campestris against C. gymnocarpa (Convolvulaceae) International Association for Plant Taxonomy: 1325-1326
- Costea, M. García, M., Baute, K. & Stefanović, S. (2015) Entangled evolutionary history of Cuscuta pentagona clade: A story involving hybridization and Darwin in the Galapagos. International Association for Plant Taxonomy: 1225 - 1242
- Beliz, T. (1986) A revision of Cuscuta sect. Cleistogrammica using phenetic and cladistic analyses with a comparison of reproductive mechanisms and host preferences in species from California, Mexico, and Central America. Ph.D. dissertation, University of California, Berkeley, U.S.A
- Beliz, T. (1986) A revision of Cuscuta sect. Cleistogrammica using phenetic and cladistic analyses with a comparison of reproductive mechanisms and host preferences in species from California, Mexico, and Central America.
- Chen, W. Dugan, F.M. & McGee, R. (2014) First report of dodder (Cuscuta pentagona) on chickpea (Cicer arietinum) in the United States. Pl. Dis. 98: 165–165.
- Costea, M. Stefanović, S. (2009) Cuscuta jepsonii (Convolvulaceae), an invasive weed or an extinct endemic? Amer. J. Bot. 96: 1744–1750.
- Costea, M. Stefanović, S. (2010) Evolutionary history and taxonomy of the Cuscuta umbellata complex (Convolvulaceae): Evidence of extensive hybridization from discordant nuclear and plastid phylogenies. Taxon 59: 1783–1800.
- Costea, M. Tardif, J.F. (2006) Biology of Canadian weeds. Cuscuta campestris Yuncker, C. gronovii Willd. ex Schult., C. umbrosa Beyr. ex Hook., C. epithymum (L.) L. and C. epilinum Weihe. Canad. J. Pl. Sci. 86: 293–316.
- Costea, M. Nesom, G.L. & Stefanović, S. 2006. (2006) Taxonomy of the Cuscuta pentagona complex (Convolvulaceae) in North America. Sida 22: 151–175
- Costea, M. Wright, M.A.R. & Stefanović, S. (2009) Untangling the systematics of salt marsh dodders: Cuscuta pacifica a new segregate species from Cuscuta salina (Convolvulaceae). Syst. Bot. 34:787–795.
- Costea, M. García Ruiz, I. & Stefanović, S. (2011) Systematics of “horned” dodders: Phylogenetic relationships, taxonomy, and two new species within the Cuscuta chapalana complex (Convolvulaceae). Botany 89: 715–730.
- Costea, M. Spence, I. & Stefanović, S. (2011) Systematics of Cuscuta chinensis species complex (subgenus Grammica, Convolvulaceae): Evidence for long-distance dispersal and one new species. Organisms Diversity Evol. 11: 373–386.
- Costea, M. García Ruiz, I., Docksteder, K. & Stefanović, S. (2013) More problems despite bigger flowers: Systematics of Cuscuta tinctoria clade (subgenus Grammica, Convolvulaceae) with description of six new species. Syst. Bot. 4: 1160–1187.
- Costea, M. García, M.A. & Stefanović, S. (2015) A phylogenetically based infrageneric classification of the parasitic plant genus Cuscuta (dodders, Convolvulaceae). Syst. Bot. 40: 269–285.
- Costea, M. García, M.A., Baute, K. & Stefanović, S. (2015) (2403) Proposal to conserve Cuscuta campestris against C. gymnocarpa (Convolvulaceae). Taxon 64: 1325–1326.
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