TY - JOUR ID - 106632 TI - A REVISION OF CUSCUTACEAE FAMILY IN IRAN JO - The Iranian Journal of Botany JA - IJB LA - en SN - 1029-788X AU - Jafari, Efat AU - Assadi, Mostafa AU - Ghanbarian, Gholam Abbas AD - Research Center for Agriculture and Natural Resources of Fars Province P. O. Box 71555-617, Shiraz, Iran. AD - Research Institute of Forest and Regelands, , Agricultural Research, Education and Extension Organization (AREEO), P. O. Box 13185-116, Tehran, Iran AD - Dept. of Natural Resources and Environment, Faculty of Agriculture, Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran. Y1 - 2016 PY - 2016 VL - 22 IS - 1 SP - 23 EP - 29 KW - Cuscuta KW - Taxonomy KW - species KW - hosts KW - Iran DO - 10.22092/ijb.2016.106632 N2 - Cuscutaceae family is reviewed based on the literature and available herbarium materials. This is a monotypic family and includes a single genus, three subgenera and eighteen species in Iran, among them Cuscuta haussknechtii Engelm, is the only endemic species in Iran. This genus has been studied for the ongoing project of the Flora of Iran. The study was based on fresh materials from field as well as herbarium specimens. All specimens existed in the herbaria of Research Institute of Forests and Rangelands (TARI), herbarium of Iranian Research Institute of Plant Protection (IRAN), Ferdowsi University of Mashad (FUMH), Research Center of Agricultural and Natural Resources of Fars Province were revised. A synopsis and identification key is provided to the eighteen species. Diversity centers and distribution of taxa in Iran are presented. Also the checklist of accepted species, synonyms, typical characters of the taxa are given. In this research new localities and new host plants are added to species and a new variety C. lehmanniana var. lehmanniana is introduced as a new record to Iran. UR - https://ijb.areeo.ac.ir/article_106632.html L1 - https://ijb.areeo.ac.ir/article_106632_378efbceb18f79a97de2eddc9d265c97.pdf ER -