Ceropegia meyeriana (Schltr.) Bruyns

Species

Angiosperms > Gentianales > Apocynaceae > Ceropegia

Characteristics

Perennial herb. Tuber 40-60 mm diam. Stems 1-few, branched from base, up to about 0.15 m long, suberect or spreading, variable, puberulous. Leaves linear-lanceolate to elliptic, up to about 30 mm long, rarely up to 10 mm broad, tapering into a short petiole, rather harshly puberulous to glabrous. Flowers 1-4 together, subaxillary or extra-axillary; pedicels up to 5 mm long. Sepals lanceolate, about 3 mm long. Corolla ±12 mm long, divided to about halfway; tube cylindric-campanulate, 6-7 mm long, glabrous outside, pinkish to greyish-green or nearly white, pubescent within upper part with long hairs; lobes lanceolate-acuminate, with somewhat reflexed margins, ciliate with long white hairs and sometimes pubescent near base. Corona cup-shaped at base, about 1.5 mm deep, forming 5 pockets with outer margin narrowly V-shaped or slit, with few long hairs; inner lobes confluent with outer cup, ascending above staminal column, linear and ± cylindrical in upper half, 2-2.5 mm long. Pollinia ±0.25 mm long, subpyriform, compressed, with caudicles from about middle attached to horny carrier.
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Dwarf, perennial geophyte. Stems 1 or 2, spreading-erect, 30-150 mm high; produced from depressed tuber. Leaves linear-lanceolate to elliptic, 30 x 2-6 mm, narrowing into short 1.5-2.5 mm petioles. Flowers 1-4 in umbelliform groups, produced at upper nodes; pedicels up to 5 mm long. Corolla campanulate; fused halfway into a tube 4-7 mm long, outside hairless, tube throat long-hairy inside; lobes spreading, lanceolate, margins revolute, ± 6 mm long, ciliate (long white hairs, pinkish to greyish green or nearly white. Corona: interstaminal corona lobes fused at base into a ± 1.5 mm deep cupulate tube, margins with 5 narrow, v-shaped slits opposite the gynostegial groove and with long hairs on outside below these slits (hairs also in circumgynostegial trough; staminal corona lobes fused to interstaminal at base, extended over and connivent over style head. Flowering time Oct., Dec.
Life form perennial
Growth form herb
Growth support free-standing
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Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Mature height (meter) 0.03 - 0.15
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Soil texture 5-9
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Distribution

Ceropegia meyeriana world distribution map, present in South Africa

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:77167195-1
WFO ID wfo-0001424382
COL ID N2BD
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Synonyms

Brachystelma meyerianum Ceropegia meyeriana