Cuscuta californica

5-merous, 3–5(–5.5) mm long, fleshy; papillae sometimes present on the pedicels, receptacle, calyx and corolla; laticifers isolated, elongated present in the corolla and capsules; calyx 1.5–2.2 mm long, golden yellow when dried, finely reticulate and shiny, turbinate-campanulate, ± angled, 3/4 to ca. equaling the corolla tube length, divided 1/2–2/3 to the base, tube 0.4–0.7 mm long, lobes 0.8–2 mm long, equal, triangular-ovate to lanceolate, overlapping at base, acute to acuminate, margins entire; corolla 3–5 mm long, white when fresh, creamy when dried, the tube 1.6–2.4 mm long, cylindric-campanulate to obconic, lobes 2.0–2.6 mm long, narrowly lanceolate, equaling or longer than the corolla tube, initially erect, later reflexed, not overlapping at the base, apex acute, not inflexed; stamens exserted when the flowers are completely open, anthers oblong to linear, 0.6–1 × 0.35–0.5 mm, filaments 0.6–1 mm long; infrastaminal scales absent or reduced to ridges; ovary ovoid to obovoid, not thickened and enlarged apically into a collar, styles evenly filiform, 1.2–2.2 mm long, ca. as long or longer than the ovary.