Ceropegia rubella (E.Mey.) Bruyns

Small, perennial, herbaceous geophyte. Stems solitary, 150-530 mm high; tuber discoid. Leaves 3-6 pairs in lower 1/3 of stem, ascending, linear, 25-65 x 1-2 mm, glabrous. Inflorescence a pedunculate raceme or raceme-like panicle, 2-flowered or rarely fascicled. Flowers sessile or pedicels up to 8.5 mm long. Corolla cupulate, fused basally into a small tube, ± 1.5-1.7 mm long; lobes spreading-erect, linear-spathulate, 7.0-12.5 mm long, apex spathulate, 2-3 mm wide; purple to pink, lower half of inner surface densely covered with darker papillae. Gynostegial column shortly stipitate. Corona: interstaminal corona lobes subquadrate, ± 0.5 mm tall, apically notched, basally pouched; staminal corona lobes narrowly linear, ± 0.5 mm long, incumbent on anthers. Flowering time Nov.-Mar. Follicles linear-fusiform, glabrous.