Ceropegia barberae (harv. ex Hook.f.) Bruyns

Perennial herb. Tuber 80-200 mm diam., depressed and becoming irregular in shape with age. Stems 1-few, up to about 100 mm tall, somewhat coarsely pubescent. Leaves cuneate-oblong, oblanceolate or oblong, tapering into a short petiole, up to 100 x 25 mm, coarsely pubescent with more hairs on lower surface. Flowers subterminal, usually in two opposite, sessile umbels of up to 25 flowers in each, appearing as one terminal, spherical inflorescence; pedicels 10-20 mm long. Sepals linear-lanceolate, up to 10 mm long. Corolla 20-45 mm long; tube campanulate, ±5 mm long, with crimson-brown bands on a yellowish background within, glabrous below, variably purple-pubescent around mouth; lobes united at tips, with an ovate-lanceolate base, becoming linear above with recurved margins, greenish on back, maroon to crimson-brown on inner surface, puberu-1ous on back and front with hairs of same colour as surface and thus sometimes appearing glabrous within. Corona campanulate or basin-like, about 1 mm high, with 5 slits in rim opposite pockets and sometimes with lateral teeth; inner lobes arising from inner wall of outer lobes, linear, incumbent on back of anthers. Pollinia durable, subpryriform, 0.4 mm long, brown, with wing along inner margin; caudicles longer than the short wings of carrier.