Ceropegia brevipedicellata (Turrill) Bruyns

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Synonyms:	Brachystelma brevipedicellatum Turrill Brachystelma dinteri Schltr. Brachystelma ringens E.A. Bruce Ceropegia dinteriana Bruyns
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Status:	Native
Description:	Dwarf perennial with an erect, simple or sparsely branched annual stem, growing from a tuber. Leaves spreading erect, rather variable, mostly lanceolate to elliptic, up to 50 × 8 mm, finely hairy. Flowers on short pedicels in axillary 9-12-flowered clusters. Corolla c. 10 mm in diameter wheel-shaped with a shallow tube; lobes ovate-triangular, light green with dense brown blotches, densely puberulous outside, hairless inside. Outer corona cup-shaped with squarish, 2-toothed lobes overtopping the staminal column; inner lobes linear. The flowers have a foetid smell. Fruits cylindric.
Notes:	See C. daverichardsii for comparison.
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Habitat:	On sandy soils in Brachystegia woodland.
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Worldwide distribution:	Zimbabwe, Namibia
Zimbabwe distribution:	N,W,C,E,S
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Images last updated:	Saturday 25 July 2009
Literature:	Goyder, D.J., Gilbert, M.G. & Venter, H.J.T. (2020). Apocynaceae (Part 2) Flora Zambesiaca 7(2) Page 171. Mapaura, A. & Timberlake, J. (eds) (2004). A checklist of Zimbabwean vascular plants Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 33 Sabonet, Pretoria and Harare Page 20.

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