Ceropegia theronii (Bruyns) Bruyns

Small herb to 10 cm tall arising from flattened discoid tuber to 12 cm diam.; stems ascending to erect and branching near base, 5-10 x 0.1-0.2 cm, puberulous, gray-green. Leaves narrowly elliptic, 15-50 x 3-10 mm, gray-green, puberulous, petiole 4-6 mm. Inflorescences 1 to 3, alongside lower nodes except first 2 above tuber, each with short peduncle to 5 mm long, with 3 to 20 flowers opening nearly simultaneously usually in a dense cluster; pedicel 10-18 mm, green, puberulous, ascending to hold flower facing upward. Flowers with sepals ca. 5 x 1 mm, narrowly lanceolate, acute, adpressed to corolla, puberulous, green; corolla rotate to slightly campanulate, 30-45 mm diam., outside green faintly mottled with brown, puberulous, inside cream mottled with maroon, covered especially around mouth of tube and inside tube with shaggy white spreading hairs 0.5-3 mm long, with foetid odor; corolla tube shallow and bowl-shaped, 2-3 mm deep and completely containing gynostegium; corolla lobes 15-20 x 4-6 mm at base, spreading, narrowly lanceolate, acuminate, margins slightly recurved and eciliate; corona ca. 2.5 x 3.5-4 mm, glabrous, apparently blackish red (actually dark yellow heavily suffused with maroon flecks), with very short basal stipe; outer lobes ca. 0.75 mm, forming almost continuous ring around gynostegium with slight notch in middle, distinctly thicker behind inner lobes; inner lobes nearly 1 mm, adpressed to backs of anthers and exceeding them, rectangular, obtuse to emarginate, slightly descending beyond anthers. Fruit a pair of slender follicles 80-100 x 3-4 mm, each horn of follicle bearing 18 to 25 flattened shiny blackish comose seeds, ca. 6 x 3 mm.