Wilfrid Laurier University - Faculty of Science - Wilfrid Laurier Herbarium (Biology) (original) (raw)
- Digital Atlas of Cuscuta (Convolvulaceae)
- What is Cuscuta?
- How many species of Cuscuta are out there?
- Obstacles in studying Cuscuta
- Why are we doing this?
- Material and methods
- Cuscuta Photo Galleries
- Cuscuta: natural history and ethnobotany
- Please help Cuscutology: for collectors and curators
- Cuscuta References
- Links to other sites
- How to use the information from this site
- Acknowledgements
- Convolvulaceae (morning glories) of Sonora, Mexico
- Scanning Electron Microscopy Facility
Cuscuta bonafortunae Costea & I Garcia, new species published in Botany 89: 724. 2011
Digital Atlas of Cuscuta (Convolvulaceae)
Welcome to Digital Atlas of Cuscuta!
This site is intended to serve primarily as a comprehensive repository of visual biodiversity and taxonomic information for Cuscuta (dodders, Convolvulaceae), as well as a tool for the identification of its taxa. Type collections are of paramount significance for understanding this group of parasitic plants (see �obstacles in studying Cuscuta�); therefore, my priority has been to make available the morphology of these specimens first. I am beginning with the groups/species that we have already studied, and I shall continue in the future with the remaining ones. Photos of living plants, anatomy, and scanning electron microscopy are also gradually added. Secondly, I plan to gradually gather here information about the evolution and phylogeny of Cuscuta, ethnobotany, pharmacology, biology and ecology, conservation and invasiveness.
If you would like to have your dodder(s) identified, I have good news: often a few dried flowers/capsules sent via regular mail are enough to make a positive identification (contact Mihai).