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Ceropegia tabularia (R.A.Dyer) Bruyns

Species

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Characteristics

Perennial herb, presumably producing a tuber. Stems branched near the base, slender, erect, ±200 mm tall, with internodes 25-70 mm long, shortly pubescent. Leaves shortly petiolate; blade oblong, ±10 x 5 mm, sparsely pubescent, somewhat undulate at margin. Flowers 1-2 or more together, extra-axillary, opening in succession. Sepals narrowly lanceolate, ±1.5 mm long. Corolla cylindric in bud, truncate (because of inflexed tips of lobes), about 12 mm long, glabrous, divided almost to base; lobes linear, with free inflexed tips, ±12 mm long, about 0.5 mm broad in middle and with base ±1.25 mm broad. Corona biseriate with outer lobes erect, about 1 mm high and deeply bilobuled; inner lobes incumbent on anthers.
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Small, perennial geophyte. Stems 2-or 3-branched from base, erect, ± 200 mm long, slender with internodes 25-70 mm long, produced from a tuber. Leaves oblong, 10 x 5 mm, margins slightly undulate; petioles short. Flowers 1 or 2 (sometimes more clustered at nodes, almost sessile. Corolla rotate, incised to base, lobes narrowly linear, base ± 1.25 mm wide, middle ± 12.5 mm wide, apex inflexed. Gynostegium marginally stipitate. Corona: interstaminal corona lobes scale-like, ± 1 mm high, deeply bilobulate, just exceeding the style-stigma-head; staminal corona lobes linear-ligulate, incumbent on backs of anthers, almost connivent.
Life form perennial
Growth form herb
Growth support free-standing
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Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Distribution

Ceropegia tabularia world distribution map, present in South Africa

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:77167239-1
WFO ID wfo-0001424325
COL ID 69N72
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Synonyms

Brachystelma tabularium Ceropegia tabularia
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