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Cuscuta reflexa

Botanic Family

Convolvulaceae

Author

Roxburgh

Common Names

• Da hua tu si zi (Pinyin)
• Dodder
• Shwe-nwe (Myanmar)
• Akash Beli or Amarbel or Indrabeli (Nepal)
• Chamjakhikwa or Jalisang (Rai)

Geographical Habitats

• Afghanistan
• Bangladesh
• Hunan
• Sichuan
• Xizang
• Yunnan - China
• India
• Java - Indonesia
• Laos
• Malaysia
• Myanmar
• Nepal
• Pakistan
• Sri Lanka
• Thailand
• Vietnam

Natural Habitats

• On shrubs & trees
• fields.

Flowering Times

• Sep-Nov (Nepal
• India)

Fruiting Times

• Oct-Nov (Nepal)

Parasitic herbaceous twining vine with yellow or yellowish-green rough stems spotted purple. Leaves reduced to small scales. Lateral racemes or fasciculate lax cymes to 10mm of white or cream fragrant flowers to 7mm long with minute bracts, calyx to 1.6mm x 1.5mm, white corolla with tube 6mm long 3.5mm diameter with appendices to 2.5mm x 1.5mm. Fleshy fruit capsule to 10mm diameter.

Medicinal uses

Further References

• FOC
• NYBG
• JDH
• The Plant List 2
• G. Don
• USNH
• Botanicus
• Flora Malesiana
• IJE
• JAA
• Kew
• Academia WWF Nepal