Cuscuta salina Engelm. var. salina Cuscuta salina Engelm. in W.H. Brewer, S. Watson, & A. Gray, Bot. Calif. 1:536. 1876                         var. salina =  Cuscuta californica Hook. & Arn. var. squamigera Engelm., Trans. Acad. Sci. St. Louis 1:499. 1859.  Cuscuta salina var. squamigera (Engelm.) Yuncker, Illinois Biol. Monogr. 6, pt. 2--3:71, fig. 126. 1921.  Cuscuta squamigera (Engelm.) Piper, Contrib. U.S. Natl. Herb. 11:455. 1906.  From isotype at MO: U.S.A. Utah. Rio Virgen, on Suaeda, saline soil, Nov 1855, J. Remy s.n. (the holotype is at P; another isotype at NY).     Want to know more about its taxonomy?                Want to know more about its phylogeny?