Ceropegia tomentosa Schltr.

Rootstock producing a cluster of succulent, subfusiform roots. Stem annual, ±0.3 m high, glabrous. Leaves ascending, linear, acute, up to 100 x 3 mm. Flowers solitary, extra-axillary from upper nodes; pedicels 6-10 mm long, slender. Sepals subulate, 6-8 mm long. Corolla 40-50 mm long, ascending; tube ±16-18 mm long, with ovoid basal inflation ±5 mm diam., contracted above to 2-3 mm in diam., broadening to ±6 mm at mouth, with sinuses spreading into 5 small pockets, greenish to yellowish green with variable purple-brown markings; lobes free, slightly diverging, linear from deltoid base, 25-30 mm long, replicate at least in lower half, yellowish green, densely tomentose with short curled or interwoven yellow hairs on inner face, and ciliate with tuft of subclavate red hairs about 5 mm above base. Corona shortly cupular, mainly white or yellowish; outer lobes forming 5 pockets, ±1 mm long, with deeply bifid outer margin, bearded on inner face of tips with long white hairs; inner lobes arising from base of outer lobes, ±2 mm long, linear or subspathulate-linear, incumbent-erect with small tubercle at base between outer lobes.