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Bruyns, P.V., Klak, C. & Hanáček, P. (2017) A revised, phylogenetically-based concept of Ceropegia (Apocynaceae) South African Journal of Botany 112 399-436
Dyer, R.A. (1980) Asclepiadaceae: Brachystelma, Ceropegia and Riocreuxia Flora of Southern Africa 27(4) 1 - 88
Goyder, D.J. (2007) Zimbabwean Asclepiadaceae. Unpublished list.
Perennial herbs, mostly climbing or scrambling, sometimes erect, with tubers or fleshy or fibrous roots. Leaves opposite, simple, sometimes succulent. Flowers in umbel-like clusters, racemes or 1-several at the nodes. Sepals 5. Corolla tubular, usually with an inflated base; lobes free or connate into a cage or umbrella-like structure. Corona 2-seriate. Follicles fusiform. Seeds narrowly winged with an apical tuft of hairs. Comment: For this genus we follow the concepts of Meve. More recent phylogenetic evidence has led to the forming of a very broad concept of the genus Ceropegia including the genus Brachystelma and all known genera within the Stapeliae (Bruyns, P.V., Klak, C. & Hanáček, P., 2017). We will await a broader form of acceptance of this new concept before changing the taxonomy in our database. Worldwide: 160 species in Arabia, Africa, Madagascar and Australia Zimbabwe: 26 taxa. Insects associated with this genus:
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Species | FZ divisions | Content |
abyssinica Decne. | N,C,E | Description, Image |
achtenii De Wild. subsp. achtenii | N | |
claviloba Werderm. | E | |
crassifolia Schltr. var. crassifolia | N,W,C | |
euryachme Schltr. | N,W,C,E | |
linearis E. Mey. subsp. debilis (N.E. Br.) H. Huber | C | |
linearis E. Mey. subsp. linearis | N,C | |
linearis E. Mey. subsp. woodii (Schltr.) H. Huber | N,W,C,E | Description, Image |
lugardiae N.E. Br. | N,W,C,E,S | Description, Image |
meyeri Decne. | N,W,C,E | Description, Image |
meyeri-johannis Engl. var. verdickii (De Wild.) Werderm. | N,C,E | |
multiflora Baker subsp. tentacula (N.E. Br.) H. Huber | N,W,C,E | Description, Image |
nilotica Kotschy | N,W,E,S | Description, Image |
pachystelma Schltr. | W | |
paricyma N.E. Br. | E | |
purpurascens K. Schum. | N,W,E | Description, Image |
pygmaea Schinz var. pumila (N.E. Br.) H. Huber | N,W,C,E,S | |
racemosa N.E. Br. | N,C,E | Description, Image |
racemosa N.E. Br. subsp. secamonoides (S. Moore) H. Huber | N | |
rendallii N.E. Br. | W,E | |
sankuruensis Schltr. | C,E | |
sobolifera N.E. Br. | N,C | Description, Image |
sp. no. 1 [NrEnd?] | E | Description, Image |
stenantha K. Schum. | N,W,C,E,S | Description, Image |
verruculosa (R.A. Dyer) D.V. Field | W,E,S | |
volubilis N.E. Br. | N,W,C |
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