Cuscuta palaestina, Boiss.

Tutin, T. G., Heywood, V. H., Burges, N. A., Moore, D. M., Valentine, D. H., Walters, S. M. & Webb, D. A., 1972, Flora Europaea. Volume 3. Diapensiacea to Myoporaceae, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press : 76

9. C. palaestina Boiss. , Diagn. Pl. Or. Nov. 2(11): 86 (1849)

( C. globularis Bertol. ).

Stems very slender, usually reddish, much branched. Flowers 1 - 5-2 mm, usually 4-merous (rarely 3-merous and single flowers in a glomerule 5-merous), sessile; glomerules 4-6 mm in diameter, globose. Calyx about as long as corollatube, usually reddish; lobes triangular, as long as or shorter than wide, acute, somewhat fleshy, keeled. Corolla-lobes usually erect, about as long as the cylindrical tube, acute, often with cuculiate apices. Anthers scarcely exserted. Scales usually reaching the filaments. Styles (including stigmas) about as long as ovary. Capsule globose, enveloped by the corolla. Seeds c. 1 mm. On dwarf shrubs. E. Mediterranean region and Sicilia. Cr Gr Si.