Cuscuta jepsonii Yunck. (1921:149)
Jepson’s dodder
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Conservation Status
Missing (Costea & Stefanović, 2009)
Last record: 1950's (Costea & Stefanović, 2009)
Distribution & Habitat
Mariposa County, California, USA
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Yuncker T. G. (1921) [reprinted 1970]. Revision of the North American and West Indian species of Cuscuta. Illinois Biological Monographs 6: 91-231.
Other references:
Beliz T. (1993). Cuscuta. In Hickman J. [ed.], The Jepson manual of higher plants of California, 1st ed., 538-539. University of California Press, Berkeley, California, USA.
Costea, Mihai and Stefanović, Saša. (2009). Cuscuta jepsonii (Convolvulaceae): An invasive weed or an extinct endemic? American Journal of Botany 96(9): 1744-1750. https://doi.org/10.3732/ajb.0800425
Costea, Mihai, Nesom, G. L. and Stefanoviæ, S. 2006. Taxonomy of the Cuscuta indecora (Convolvulaceae) complex in North America. Sida 22: 209-225.
Flora of North America Editorial Committee (2023). Flora of North America North of Mexico 14: 1-505. Oxford University Press, New York, Oxford.
Govaerts, R. (1999). World Checklist of Seed Plants 3(1, 2a & 2b): 1-1532. MIM, Deurne.
Kartesz, J.T. in: Kartesz, J. T. (1994). Convolvulaceae, Cuscutaceae. A synonymized checklist of the vascular flora of the United States, Canada, and Greenland 1: 217-221-& 227-228. Timber Press.
POWO. (2025). Plants of the World Online (online resource). Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, United Kingdom. Available at: https://powo.science.kew.org/ [Accessed 12 July 2025]
Walter, Kerry S. and Gillett, Harriet J. (eds.). (1998). 1997 IUCN Red List of Threatened Plants. Compiled by the World Conservation Monitoring Centre. Gland, Switzerland & Cambridge, UK: IUCN – The World Conservation Union. lxiv + 862 pp.
Yuncker, T. G. (1932). The genus Cuscuta. Memoirs of the Torrey Botanical Club 18: 113-331. New York Botanical Garden.
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