Ceropegia bowkeri Harv.

Species

Angiosperms > Gentianales > Apocynaceae > Ceropegia

Characteristics

Dwarf geophyte. Stems 1-3, produced annually, erect and unbranched, (15-)20-400 (-500) mm long; produced from fascicled rootstock. Leaves ascending, linear to linear-lanceolate, ± 40-135 x 3 mm. Flower solitary, produced laterally from nodes. Corolla cylindric-urceolate, 35-40(-60) mm long; tube straight, 16-18(-38) mm long with a basal inflation 6-8 mm in diam. and slightly fluted at mouth; lobes pendulous and hinged at maturity, ± 20 mm long, narrowly elliptic to almost linear with 2 parallel rows of round dimples; light green with violet-brown markings at mouth with greyish white band down the lobe middles; margins yellowish or purple-hairy. Corona: interstaminal corona lobes deeply divided, upper margin of 2 deltoid-lanceolate sharply pointed appendages, ± 1.5 mm long with long, white hairs; staminal corona lobes ± 1.25 mm long.
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Erect geophyte, 8-30 cm; sap clear. Leaves opposite, linear, channelled above. Flowers 18-30 mm, tube slightly flared above, petals 15-22 mm long, pendulous.
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Images

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Distribution

Ceropegia bowkeri world distribution map, present in South Africa

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:95484-1
WFO ID wfo-0000598053
COL ID T328
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Synonyms

Ceropegia bowkeri

Lower taxons

Ceropegia bowkeri subsp. sororia Ceropegia bowkeri subsp. bowkeri