Cuscuta suaveolens
Ser. Fringed DodderStems sometimes rather stout, yellowish. Inflorescence a loose few-flowered axillary cluster, subtended by an obtuse bract c. 1.5 mm long. Flowers 5-merous; pedicels mostly 3–6 mm long; calyx 1.5–2 mm long, lobes more or less equal, triangular-ovate, acute, shorter than or equal to tube; corolla 3–4 mm long, white, lobes triangular to triangular-ovate, acute, much shorter than tube; filaments 0.5–0.8 mm long, c. as long as anthers; scales subtending stamens oblong, barely as long as corolla-tube, with a dense fringe to 0.5 mm long; stigmas capitate. Capsule globose, c. 3.5 mm diam., not circumscissile; seeds 1.5–2 mm long. Flowers mainly summer and autumn.
MuM, GleP, VVP, GipP, WaP, Gold, WPro, HSF, HNF. Also naturalised WA, SA, NSW, Tas. Native to South America. Scattered widely in Victoria and commonly parasitic on herbaceous legumes, but also herbs from a range of families.
Jeanes, J.A. (1999). Cuscutaceae. In: Walsh, N.G.; Entwisle, T.J., Flora of Victoria Vol. 4, Cornaceae to Asteraceae, pp. 375–379. Inkata Press, Melbourne.