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Ceropegia meyeri
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Photo: Helen Pickering
Victoria Falls: very close to the Livingstone statue overlooking the Falls
Photo: Helen Pickering
Victoria Falls: very close to the Livingstone statue overlooking the Falls
Photo: Helen Pickering
Victoria Falls: very close to the Livingstone statue overlooking the Falls
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Ceropegia pubescens E.Mey. |
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| Status: | Native |
| Description: |
Perennial twining herb with annual stems, up to 1.5 m long, growing from a disc-like tuberous rootstock. Milky sap present. Leaves opposite, variable, lanceolate to ovate, up to 8 × 3 cm, cordate at the base, more or less pubescent; margin entire, lobed or appearing toothed with many very small short lobes. Flowers in 2-4-flowered axillary clusters. Corolla bottle-shaped, 4-6 cm long, swollen 7-9 mm wide in the basal two-thirds of the tube, white to greenish-white, more or less distinctly spotted or striped in the upper half; lobes linear, c. 1 cm long, curving inward and connecting at the tips to form a more or less spherical "cage", black with green stripes; margins reflexed with long hair-like cilia. Fruit in 2 erect, almost parallel, follicles, terete, linear-filiform, up to 10 cm long, hairless. |
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| Habitat: | In grassland, open Mopane woodland or Combretum bushland, usually on sandy soils. |
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| Worldwide distribution: | Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Botswana, Namibia, Eswatini, and South Africa as far as the Eastern Cape. |
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| Literature: |
Bruyns, P.V. (2014). The Apocynaceae of Namibia Strelitzia 34 SANBI, Pretoria, South Africa Pages 87 - 89. Dyer, R.A. (1983). Ceropegia, Brachystelma and Riocreuxia in Southern Africa. Balkema Goyder, D.J., Gilbert, M.G. & Venter, H.J.T. (2020). Apocynaceae (Part 2) Flora Zambesiaca 7(2) Pages 127 - 130. (Includes a picture). Mapaura, A. & Timberlake, J. (eds) (2004). A checklist of Zimbabwean vascular plants Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 33 Sabonet, Pretoria and Harare Page 20. Pickering, H. & Roe, E. (2009). Wild Flowers of the Victoria Falls Area Helen Pickering, London Page 27. (Includes a picture). |
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Flora of Mozambique: Ceropegia meyeriFlora of Zambia: Ceropegia meyeri
Flora of Zimbabwe: Ceropegia meyeri
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African Plants: A Photo Guide (Senckenberg): Ceropegia meyeriAfrican Plant Database: Ceropegia meyeri
BHL (Biodiversity Heritage Library): Ceropegia meyeri
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Mansfeld World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops: Ceropegia meyeri
Plants of the World Online: Ceropegia meyeri
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Wikipedia: Ceropegia meyeri
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