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Ceropegia multiflora
tentacula
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| Synonyms: |
Ceropegia multiflora Baker subsp. tentacula (N.E. Br.) H. Huber Ceropegia tentacula N.E. Br. |
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| Status: | Native |
| Description: |
Perennial twining herb with 1-2 annual stems, up to 0.5-3 m long, growing from a slightly flattened or concave tuberous rootstock. Milky sap present. Leaves opposite, variable, often on the same plant from linear-oblong to ovate-lanceolate, 1-7 cm long, fleshy, mostly hairless; base tapering into a petiole up to 8 mm; margin often wavy. Flowers in 1-many-flowered sessile axillary clusters. Corolla tube, c. 2 cm long, slightly curved, slender with a subglobose swelling at the base, pale purplish, greenish in the upper third; lobes lanceolate, 5-7 mm long, tapering into a long thread-like tip; lobes often spreading, sometimes with hair-like tips inflexed and connected, pale yellowish-green. Fruit in 2 follicles, fusiform, up to 16 cm long. |
| Notes: | |
| Derivation of specific name: | multiflora: many-flowered |
| Habitat: | Among stones among bushes or in sand among trees. |
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| Worldwide distribution: | Angola, Botswana, Namibia, Zimbabwe, Mozambique and Limpopo, North-West, Freestate and Gauteng, South Africa |
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| Red data list status: | Lower Risk - least concern |
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| Spot characters: | Display spot characters for this species |
| Literature: |
Bruyns, P.V. (2014). The Apocynaceae of Namibia Strelitzia 34 SANBI, Pretoria, South Africa Page 89. Golding, J.S. (ed.) (2002). Namibia Plant Red Data List. Southern African Plant Red Data Lists. SABONET 14 Page 74. Goyder, D.J., Gilbert, M.G. & Venter, H.J.T. (2020). Apocynaceae (Part 2) Flora Zambesiaca 7(2) Pages 151 - 153. (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. Setshogo, M.P. (2005). Preliminary checklist of the plants of Botswana. Sabonet Report no. 37. Sabonet, Pretoria and Gaborone Page 25. |
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Flora of Botswana: Ceropegia multiflora subsp. tentaculaFlora of Mozambique: Ceropegia multiflora subsp. tentacula
Flora of Zimbabwe: Ceropegia multiflora subsp. tentacula
External websites:
African Plants: A Photo Guide (Senckenberg): Ceropegia multifloraAfrican Plant Database: Ceropegia multiflora
BHL (Biodiversity Heritage Library): Ceropegia multiflora
EOL (Encyclopedia of Life): Ceropegia multiflora
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Mansfeld World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops: Ceropegia multiflora
Plants of the World Online: Ceropegia multiflora
Tropicos: Ceropegia multiflora
Wikipedia: Ceropegia multiflora
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