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Cuscuta approximata  BAB.

Fam.: Convolvulaceae / Bindweed Fam.

Genus:  Cuscuta  L.

Authors:
	BAB.:		Charles Cardale Babington (1808 - 1895), British botanist and archeologist
	L.:		Carl von Linné (Linnaeus, 1707 - 1777), Swedish naturalist who introduced the binary naming system for plants and animals

Etymology:
	Cuscuta:		kassyein = to enlace
	approximata:		approach: looking as another species

Fig. 1:  Cuscuta approximata / Alfalfa Dodder (on Medicago x varia) A Seewinkel, Podersdorf 11.7.2023

Fig. 2:  Cuscuta approximata / Alfalfa Dodder (on Medicago x varia) A Seewinkel, Podersdorf 11.7.2023

Fig. 3:  Cuscuta approximata / Alfalfa Dodder (on Medicago x varia) A Seewinkel, Podersdorf 11.7.2023

Fig. 4:  Cuscuta approximata / Alfalfa Dodder (on Medicago x varia) A Seewinkel, Podersdorf 11.7.2023

Fig. 5:  Cuscuta approximata / Alfalfa Dodder (on Medicago x varia) A Seewinkel, Podersdorf 11.7.2023

Fig. 6:  Cuscuta approximata / Alfalfa Dodder (on Medicago x varia) A Seewinkel, Podersdorf 11.7.2023

Fig. 7:  Cuscuta approximata / Alfalfa Dodder A Seewinkel, Podersdorf 11.7.2023

Fig. 8:  Cuscuta approximata / Alfalfa Dodder A Seewinkel, Podersdorf 11.7.2023

Fig. 9:  Cuscuta approximata / Alfalfa Dodder A Seewinkel, Podersdorf 11.7.2023

Fig. 10:  Cuscuta approximata / Alfalfa Dodder I Passignano 1.6.2007

Fig. 11:  Cuscuta approximata / Alfalfa Dodder I Passignano 1.6.2007

Fig. 12:  Cuscuta approximata / Alfalfa Dodder I Passignano 1.6.2007

Fig. 13:  Cuscuta approximata / Alfalfa Dodder I Passignano 1.6.2007

Fig. 14:  Cuscuta approximata / Alfalfa Dodder GR Akrokorinth 11.3.2014 (Photo: Gisela Nikolopoulou)

Fig. 15:  Cuscuta approximata / Alfalfa Dodder GR Akrokorinth 11.3.2014 (Photo: Gisela Nikolopoulou)

Fig. 16:  Cuscuta approximata ? / Alfalfa Dodder Chios, Mesta 2.4.2016

Fig. 17:  Cuscuta approximata ? / Alfalfa Dodder Chios, Mesta 2.4.2016

Fig. 18:  Cuscuta approximata ? / Alfalfa Dodder Chios, Mesta 2.4.2016

Fig. 19:  Cuscuta approximata ? / Alfalfa Dodder Chios, Mesta 2.4.2016

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