Home | > | List of families | > | Apocynaceae subfamilies Asclepiadoideae and Secamonoideae | > | Ceropegia | > | stenoloba |
Synonyms: |
Ceropegia chortophylla Werderm. Ceropegia schliebenii Markgr. |
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Status: | Native |
Description: |
Slender perennial twining herb with clear latex, growing from a tuberous root. Leaves opposite linear-lanceolate. Flowers purplish with a deep tube and long spidery lobes, spreading, not united at the tips. |
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Derivation of specific name: | stenoloba: with narrow lobes; schliebenii: after Hans-Joachim Eberhardt Schlieben (1902-1975), German botanist, photographer, and writer who collected in Tanzania and South Africa. |
Habitat: | In shallow soils over rock. |
Altitude range: | 2200 - 2250 m |
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Worldwide distribution: | Southern Tanzania and northern Malawi |
Malawi distribution: | N |
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Endemic status: | Near Endemic |
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Spot characters: | Display spot characters for this species |
Content last updated: | Monday 4 January 2021 |
Literature: |
Burrows, J.E. & Willis, C.K. (eds) (2005). Plants of the Nyika Plateau Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 31 SABONET, Pretoria Pages 69 - 70. as Ceropegia schliebenii (Includes a picture). |
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