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Cuscuta epilinum is a species of flowering plant belonging to the family Convolvulaceae.
Quoted from Wikipedia, "Cuscuta epilinum", CC BY-SA 4.0.
Cultivation
Nothing derived: no habitat climate for this species.
Climate across the habitat
No habitat climate can be derived: Only 2 distinct land cells of the climate grid hold an in-range record placed to within 10 km; three are needed for an envelope. 13 of the 15 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or to no stated accuracy and fewer than three decimals or by something other than a person's observation, and cannot place a climate cell, though they count for the map and its marker.
Natural habitat
Native range as published by WCVP; the marker is where the records are densest and decides nothing.
Openly licensed records inside the range, framed on where they fall.
NativeKazakhstan, Kirgizistan, Tadzhikistan, North Caucasus, Iran · introduced: Finland, Norway, Sweden, Austria, Czechoslovakia, Germany, Hungary, Netherlands, Poland, Switzerland, Corse, France, Portugal, Sardegna, Spain, Bulgaria, Italy, Romania, Sicilia, Yugoslavia, Belarus, Baltic States, Central European Russia, East European Russia, North European Russia, South European Russia, Northwest European Russia, Ukraine, Algeria, Egypt, Morocco, Canary Is., Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda, Altay, Tuva, West Siberia, Primorye, Cyprus, Palestine, Québec, Washington, Wyoming, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Vermont, Delaware, Maryland, Argentina Northeast · regions are the level-3 units of the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, as Kew's World Checklist records ranges, some under historical names such as Yugoslavia or Czechoslovakia (how).
Map marker53.941, 48.651 · in the densest population, 12 records (80% of those in range)
Kew's description“holoparasitic annual” · “temperate” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 15 georeferenced records inside the native range, all openly licensed and shown on the map. 1379 records outside the WCVP native range not used. No climate across the range is derived for this species. 13 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or with no stated accuracy (admitted only as a person's observation to three decimals), and stay on the map but off the climate.
How this section is made
The map marker: the openly licensed record nearest the middle of the densest 1° population inside the densest 4° block of the 15 in-range records; it decides nothing. Records outside the native range, living specimens and records marked introduced are not used; which records count.
Photographs
Photographs: Zquid, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
Related
Other Cuscuta 16 in the reference
Cuscuta australis Australian dodder Photo: CC BY, Augustin Soulard
Cuscuta californica California dodder Photo: CC BY, Gavin Skeen
Cuscuta campestris Yellow dodder Photo: CC BY, 黃美滿
Cuscuta chinensis Chinese dodder Photo: CC BY, Jo Roberts
Cuscuta epithymum Clover dodder Photo: CC BY, joy russell
Cuscuta europaea Greater dodder Photo: CC BY, Евгений Маринкин
Cuscuta grandiflora Convolvulaceae Photo: CC BY, Jhon A. Yuca-Palomino
Cuscuta gronovii Scaldweed Photo: CC BY-SA, Henry Label
Cuscuta japonica Japanese dodder Photo: CC BY, ITÔ, Hiroki
Cuscuta lupuliformis Hop dodder Photo: CC BY, Анна Митрошенкова
Cuscuta odorata Convolvulaceae Photo: CC BY, Pablo Silva
Cuscuta pacifica Large saltmarsh dodder Photo: CC BY, dorian all 17 ›Names & registers
Also known as Cuscuta aggregata; Cuscuta densiflora; Cuscuta europaea var. tenuior; Cuscuta linodesmon; Cuscuta major and 2 more. (GBIF Backbone)
The record
Family
Convolvulaceae
Described by
Weihe
Native to
Kazakhstan, Kirgizistan, Tadzhikistan +2
Wild records
15 in range · 15 open
Every figure here is derived from public data by a stated rule and names its source; nothing about this species is written for its page by a person or by AI, apart from the marked, credited quotations. How →
Where this page came from built 2026-10-22
GBIF species record
gbif.species answeredasked 2026-10-22GBIF synonyms
gbif.synonyms answeredasked 2026-10-22GBIF common names
gbif.vernacular answeredasked 2026-10-22names fetched 2026-10-22WCVP native range
wcvp.distribution answeredas of 2026-06-04GBIF occurrence records
gbif.occurrences answeredas of 2026-10-21GBIF occurrence download https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.hbdw64, of 2026-10-21; 60 records within 1 km of a botanic garden, herbarium or zoo left out (29 at a botanic garden or arboretum, 1 at a herbarium, 30 at a zoo; Wikidata's list)Habitat climate
climate nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22only 2 distinct land cells of the climate grid hold an in-range record placed to within 10 km; three are needed for an envelopeWikidata
wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-22Wikipedia
wikipedia answeredasked 2026-10-22iNaturalist photographs, wild
inat.photos.wild nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22from iNaturalist's open data of 2026-09-27: research-grade observations with an open-licence photograph, the 24 whose photographs iNaturalist received last (the open data holds no votes); filled 2026-10-22iNaturalist photographs, cultivated
inat.photos.cultivated not askedGBIF media
gbif.media nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22Wikimedia Commons
commons answeredasked 2026-10-22OpenAlex papers
openalex not askednot yet asked for this reference; a later fill takes the papers from OpenAlex's snapshotEvery source is recorded as having answered, reported nothing, refused, failed, not been asked, or answered twice where one answer is taken (“not taken: two items answered”), and, for a source asked when this page was built, when: the figures are as the source held them that day; a source read from a file (Kew's World Checklist, a GBIF download) says "as of" the file's day instead; a row carried from an earlier build of the page names that build instead. Only “nothing to report” is ever shown as an absence. Records came from 100 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.