Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Cuscuta tasmanica
Common name
Tasmanian dodder, Golden dodder
Family
Convolvulaceae
Where found
Parasitic on plants such as Wilsonia and Chenopodium, usually in saline areas. Coastal. Lake Bathurst south of Goulburn. Rarely elsewhere.
Notes
Parasitic annual twiner, leafless. Stems slender, pale yellow. Leafless. Flowers creamy, 3–4 mm long, tubular, with 5 lobes much longer than the tube. Individual flower stalks 3–6 mm long. Flowers in loose few-flowered clusters, Flowering: mainly summer–autumn.
General Biosecurity Duty all NSW. Always check native vegetation requirements before undertaking control of a weedy native plant.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Cuscuta~tasmanica (accessed 9 January, 2021)
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