Ceropegia nanior Bruyns

Perennial herb. Tuber subglobose, up to about 40 mm diam., with stout underground stem. Branches 2-several, 50-80 mm tall, slender. Leaves linear-elliptic to linear-lanceolate, up to 20 mm long, tapering into a short petiole, usually very minutely ciliate with adpressed hairs. Flowers 1-3, lateral at nodes, mainly pale pink to whitish with green tips; pedicels up to about 3 mm long. Sepals lanceolate, about 1 mm long. Corolla up to 4.5 mm long; tube ±1 mm long, cuplike; lobes campanulate-spreading, ovate or ovate-lanceolate, up to 3.5 mm long, slightly thickened at tips, incurved. Corona arising above base of staminal column, shortly tubular-campanulate at base; outer lobes deeply divided, resulting in 10 equal lobules over-topping staminal column, minutely papillate-pubescent, red-tipped; inner lobes arising from within the outer, incumbent on backs of anthers, with ascending tips. Pollinia subglobose, ±0.25 mm long, with amber inner margin, shortly attached by caudicles to winged carrier. Follicles (1)2, subfusiform, ± divergent, ±50 mm long, smooth.