Ceropegia campanuliformis Bruyns

Species

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Characteristics

Perennial herb. Tuber 50-75 mm diam., depressed from above, rounded below. Stems 1-2, up to about 50 mm tall, usually unbranched, puberulous. Leaves elliptic, ovate or obovate, 15-35 x 10-15 mm, puberulous on both surfaces, contracted into a petiole about 10 mm long. Flowers solitary at nodes, nodding, with pedicels about 5 mm long. Sepals lanceolate-acuminate, 4-5 mm long. Corolla campanulate, about 15 mm long, green and puberulous outside; tube about 10 mm long, and the same in diam., with broken, circular, purple markings round corona, becoming greenish yellow, spotted and with longitudinal, purple-brown veins into the lobes, with short papilla-like hairs; lobes 4-5 mm long, broadly triangular, with or without minute cilia, slightly spreading. Corona with shortly united base, forming 5 pockets with outer margin 2-dentate or V-shaped, laterally confluent with inner lobes; inner lobes oblong, incumbent on staminal column. Follicles about 80 mm long, sub-fusiform, slightly curved, smooth.
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Dwarf, perennial geophyte. Stems 1 or 2 usually unbranched stems, 20-50 mm high, ± erect, produced from apically depressed tuber. Leaves elliptic, ovate or obovate, 15-35 x 10-15 mm, puberulous; petioles 10 mm long. Flowers solitary, nodding; pedicel ± 5 mm long. Corolla campanulate, 10 mm in diam., outside greenish, inside horizontally purple to purple-brown-striped at base around gynostegium, stripes becoming vertical thereafter with papilla-like hairs; tube ± 10 mm long; lobes 4-5 mm long, ovate but apically acute and spreading slightly. Corona small; interstaminal corona lobes fleshy, fused at base into 5 short pockets produced into an erect, dentate-like tooth on each outer margin; staminal corona lobes fleshy linear, ligulate, incumbent on anther backs, fused laterally at base to interstaminal corona. Flowering time Jan.? Follicles erect, subfusiform and slightly curved, smooth, ± 80 mm long.
Life form perennial
Growth form herb
Growth support free-standing
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Distribution

Ceropegia campanuliformis world distribution map, present in South Africa

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:77167150-1
WFO ID wfo-0001424275
COL ID 69NCZ
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Synonyms

Brachystelma campanulatum Ceropegia campanuliformis