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Ceropegia schoenlandiana (Schltr.) Bruyns

Species

Angiosperms > Gentianales > Apocynaceae > Ceropegia

Characteristics

Perennial herb. Tuber presumably small, producing an annual stem up to ±50 mm tall, branched, pilose. Leaves ± lanceolate, up to about 10 mm long, tapering into a short petiole. Flowers 2-4 together at nodes, with pedicels 3 mm long, pilose. Sepals linear-lanceolate, 1 mm long, very shortly pilose. Corolla ±5 mm long; tube 3 mm long, campanulate, 2 mm diam. at top, glabrous; lobes lanceolate, tapering, 2 mm long. Corona cupular; outer lobes 2-toothed; inner lobes incumbent on anthers.
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Dwarf, perennial geophyte. Stems solitary, branched, erect, ± 50 mm high, pilose, produced from small tuber. Leaves ± lanceolate, up to 50 mm long, tapered basally into short petioles. Flowers 2-4 clustered at nodes; pedicels 3 mm long. Corolla fused, campanulate, 3 x 2 mm at mouth, hairs absent; lobes lanceolate, ± 2 mm long. Corona: interstaminal corona lobes fused basally into a cup-like tube, bifid apically; staminal corona lobes linear, incumbent on backs of anthers.
Life form perennial
Growth form herb
Growth support free-standing
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Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Distribution

Ceropegia schoenlandiana world distribution map, present in South Africa

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:77167231-1
WFO ID wfo-0001424315
COL ID T3QQ
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Synonyms

Brachystelma schoenlandianum Ceropegia schoenlandiana
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