Cuscuta campestris Yunck., it is a climbing holoparasite. Stems moderately stout, yellowish. Flowers 2-3 mm, 5-merous; pedicels short; glomerules 10-12 mm in diameter, compact, globose. Calyx campanulate, about as long as corolla-tube; lobes ovate or orbicular, obtuse, slightly overlapping. Corolla-lobes acute, triangular, patent (often with inflexed apex), about as long as the shortly campanulate tube. Stamens exserted. Scales long, densely fimbriate, exserted. Styles slender, about as long as the globose ovary. Capsule 2-3 mm in diameter, depressed-globose, pale, with the persistent corolla at its base. Seeds 1-1.2 mm.
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