Cuscuta babylonica is a species of parasitic plants in the morning glory family, Convolvulaceae. It is found in Iraq and Turkmenistan.
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Asterids |
| Order: | Solanales |
| Family: | Convolvulaceae |
| Genus: | Cuscuta |
| Species: | C. babylonica
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| Cuscuta babylonica | |
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Cuscuta babylonica var. elegans (Boiss. & Balansa) Engelm.[2] | |
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The plant shows supernumerary chromosomes which are holocentric during meiosis.[4]
It is a parasite of Carthamus glaucus.[5]
References
edit- ^ 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)
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