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Cuscuta taimensis (Convolvulaceae, Cuscuteae), a new species from South America

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A new species of Cuscuta (Convolvulaceae: Cuscuteae) from South America is described, illustrated, and studied under light and scanning electron microscopy. Cuscuta taimensis is similar to Cuscuta racemosa, but differs in having oblong to elliptic calyx lobes and a circumscissile capsule.

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The authors would like to thank the curators of the herbaria CRI, FLOR, FURB, HAS, HBR, HCF, HUCS (unindexed), HUEM, HURG, INPA, MBM, MPUC, MVJB, MVM, NY, PACA, S and SMDB for supplying plant material for our project on Southern Brazilian Convolvulaceae. We are also grateful to Dr. Mihai Costea for examining the specimens and providing valuable observations and suggestions. We thank Dr. Rafael Trevisan for helping us with the Latin diagnosis, Eduardo Pasini for the identification of host-plants, Gustavo Bergmann Heiden and João Ricardo Vieira Iganci for valuable information vegetation in Uruguay. This research was supported by Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq) to J. L. Waechter (471695/2010-6), S.T.S. Miotto (Produtividade em Pesquisa), and G.A. Dettke (140233/2009-1), and Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) to P.P.A. Ferreira (562170/2010-3). This is publication 03 in the Parasitic Plants Research Group technical series.

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  1. Programa de Pós-Graduação em Botânica, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Av. Bento Gonçalves, 9500, Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, 91501-970, Brazil

    Priscila Porto Alegre Ferreira & Greta Aline Dettke

  2. Departamento de Botânica, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Av. Bento Gonçalves, 9500, Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, 91501-970, Brazil

    Jorge Luiz Waechter & Silvia Teresinha Sfoggia Miotto

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Ferreira, P.P.A., Dettke, G.A., Waechter, J.L. et al. Cuscuta taimensis (Convolvulaceae, Cuscuteae), a new species from South America. Brittonia 66, 269–273 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12228-014-9329-1

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