Ceropegia fimbriata E.Mey.

Rootstock producing succulent, cylindric or fusiform roots. Stem perennial, succulent, slender, glabrous, scrambling, climbing, somewhat twining, 1 m or longer, moderately branched. Leaves rudimentary, linear-lanceolate, up to 5 x 1 mm. Flowers 1-2, extra-axillary, developed successively; pedicels ±10 mm long. Sepals linear-lanceolate, 4-6 mm long. Corolla about 60 mm long, glabrous; tube ±37 mm long, curved, with globose inflated base 12-13 mm long and 10 mm diam., mainly green, contracted to 3 mm above, thence gradually expanded to 15 mm at mouth, with margin of mouth slightly incurved and with a minute lobe in sinuses, tuberculate within inflation; lobes in basal 4 mm free, slender, upright and with incurved margins, in apical 7 mm expanded and united into an umbrella-or parachute-like canopy 16-18 mm diam., with 10-crenate margin fringed with long, pendulous, clavate, vibratile, purple hairs. Corona arising slightly above base of staminal column, purple; outer lobes ±3 mm long, erect, divided almost to base into 2 slender, subparallel segments; inner lobes ±3 mm long, incumbent-erect, slightly recurving at tips.