Ceropegia gemmea (R.A.Dyer) Bruyns

Perennial herb. Tuber ±60 mm diam. Stems 4-5, 5-7 mm tall, minutely pubescent, densely leafy. Leaves shortly petiolate, linear, 30-40 x 3-4 mm, tapering to both ends, minutely pubescent; petiole 3-5 mm long. Flowers in extra-axillary, few-to several-flowered fascicles, developing successively. Pedicels 2-3 mm long, minutely puberulous. Sepals linear, acuminate, ±2 mm long, puberulous. Corolla 15-16 mm long, purple, glabrous; tube campanulate, ±2 mm long, slightly spreading at sinuses, with few, 3.5 mm long, narrowly cylindric, vibratile, caducous, purple hairs on inner face at base of lobes; lobes linear from an ovate base, 13-14 mm long, replicate, glabrous, united at tips and forming a cage. Corona arising 0.5 mm above base of staminal column, producing 5 spreading outer lobes divided to ± halfway into linear teeth or lobules with few long hairs from tips; inner lobes oblong, incumbent on backs of anthers but not meeting over centre.