Ceropegia occidentalis R.A.Dyer

Rootstock producing a tuber. Tuber 20-40 mm diam. sometimes with auxiliary ones. Stems 1(2), annual, 0.15-0.3 m high (with support of shrublets), not twining, somewhat fleshy, sparsely branched, glabrous. Leaves fleshy, subsessile, oblong to lanceolate, ±20 x 5 mm, rounded on back, channelled down face, glabrous, reduced in size on terminal growth. Flowers 2-few from extra-axillary eyes, fascicled or pedunculate, opening in succession; pedicels 5-8 mm long. Sepals lanceolate, ±2 mm long. Corolla 25-30 mm long, glabrous, sinuses spreading in bud; tube 20-25 mm long, with basal swelling 5-7 mm diam., contracted above and then expanding to ±7 mm diam. at mouth, pale green with crimson spots and longitudinal marking within tube; lobes ±7 mm long, united at tips, replicate towards base, somewhat spathulate above with long, dark, inflexed hairs. Corona with broadly campanulate tube 1.5 mm deep, forming 5 pockets with crescent-shaped margins confluent with base of inner lobes; inner lobes linear-oblong from ovate base, incumbent-erect, ±2 mm high with somewhat flattened back. Pollinia asymmetric, 0.2 mm long, contracted to the apex, attached by very short caudicles towards base to carrier.