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Synonyms: |
Ceropegia kassneri S. Moore Ceropegia kwebensis N.E. Br. |
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Status: | Native |
Description: |
Perennial twining herb with annual stems, up to 1-2 m long, growing from a flattened tuberous rootstock. Milky sap present. Leaves opposite, heartshaped, up to c. 5 × 2.5 cm, cordate at the base, slightly fleshy, slightly hairy on both surfaces; petiole up to 1 cm. Flowers in few-many-flowered axillary inflorescences. Corolla tube c. 2 cm long, narrowing in the middle and bent at almost right angles, pale purplish, greenish on the widening upper third; lobes linear, 5-9 mm long, connecting at the tips to form a "cage", pale greenish with a dark purple mark at the base of the lobes; margins reflexed with long hair-like cilia. Fruit in 2 follicles, fusiform, up to 10 cm long. |
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Habitat: | On rock outcrops, in Brachystegia woodland, margins of forest and thickets, usually in damp and shady situations. |
Altitude range: (metres) | 750 - 1450 m |
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Worldwide distribution: | Angola?, Botswana, DRC?, Namibia, Tanzania, Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia and Zimbabwe. |
Zimbabwe distribution: | N,W,E |
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Spot characters: | Display spot characters for this species |
Images last updated: | Monday 27 December 2010 |
Literature: |
Bruyns, P.V. (2014). The Apocynaceae of Namibia Strelitzia 34 SANBI, Pretoria, South Africa Page 92. Dyer, R.A. (1983). Ceropegia, Brachystelma and Riocreuxia in Southern Africa. Balkema Golding, J.S. (ed.) (2002). Namibia Plant Red Data List. Southern African Plant Red Data Lists. SABONET 14 Page 64. Goyder, D.J., Gilbert, M.G. & Venter, H.J.T. (2020). Apocynaceae (Part 2) Flora Zambesiaca 7(2) Pages 114 - 116. (Includes a picture). Malaisse, F. (1984). Recherches sur les Asclepiadaceae du Shaba (Zaire). I. Nouvelles Observations sur le genre Ceropegia L. Bulletin du Jardin botanique national de Belgique / Bulletin van de National Plantentuin van België, 54(1/2) Pages 222 - 224. as Ceropegia purpurascens subsp. purpurascens (Includes a picture). 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. Setshogo, M.P. (2005). Preliminary checklist of the plants of Botswana. Sabonet Report no. 37. Sabonet, Pretoria and Gaborone Page 26. |
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