Ceropegia brevipedicellata (Turrill) Bruyns

Perennial herb with tuber. Tuber 50-60 mm diameter, about 30 mm thick, compressed from above. Stems 2-4, produced annually, up to about 100 mm tall, erect or often branched and somewhat spreading, thinly covered with reflexed hairs. Leaves elliptic to ovate-oblong or ovate-lanceolate, 15-50 mm long, 10-20 mm broad, slightly folded upwards, sometimes crisped on margin, hairy on lower surface and near margin on upper surface. Flowers few to several together, shortly stalked, in the axils or somewhat lateral at the nodes. Corolla opening more or less flat, about 10 mm diameter with a small central tube or depression less than 2 mm deep containing the corona divided about halfway, pale green outside, pale maroon near base within; lobes ovate-deltoid, transversely rugose or corrugated on surface, dark maroon, glossy, sometimes with few hairs.