Vegetative key to the families

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ROOTLESS EPIPHYTIC PARASITES.
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Stems thread-like, leafless or almost so, forming tangled masses over the host and attached to the host by haustoria
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Stems green or with brown scale-leaves. Usually parasitic on shrubs or trees (Cassytha) Lauraceae
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Leaves reduced to scales. Rootless twinning hemiparasitic herb Cassytha
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Plants pubescent at least when young. Stems comparatively stout. Flowers in short spikes or almost capitate
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Stems pubescent, often tuberculate when older. Peduncles and perianth pubescent, ribbed. Floral tube globular at fruiting stage, greenish. Widespread. Heath and open forest. Fl. spring–summer Cassytha pubescens
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Stems glabrescent, more stout than in any other species. Peduncles pubescent. Floral tube with a blackish pubescence, globular at fruiting stage. Widespread. Fl. spring Cassytha melantha