Ceropegia plocamoides
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Photo: Douglas Laing
Lusaka NE, Hummels' farm
Lusaka SE; cultivated from seed from Chisamba, Wardy Farm; Dec 1996.
Photo: Mike Bingham
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| Synonyms: |
Brachystelma linearifolium Turrill Brachystelma mortonii Walker Brachystelma parviflorum Morton Brachystelma plocamoides Oliv. |
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| Status: | Native |
| Description: |
Procumbent perennial with dividing annual stems, up to 25 cm long, growing from a tuber. Leaves erect, linear, up to 80 × 10 mm. Flowers axillary, mostly solitary. Corolla flat and wheel-shaped, velvety, dark red, orange-grey in the centre; lobes c. 10 × 3 mm folded along the length. Outer corona lobes deeply 2-fid longer than the gymnostegium; inner lobes short. |
| Type location: |
Tanzania |
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| Habitat: | Open woodland on compacted bare soil. |
| Altitude range: (metres) | 250 - 1800 m |
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| Worldwide distribution: | Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria, Tanzania, Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia and Zimbabwe. |
| FZ divisions: | MS |
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| Spot characters: | Display spot characters for this species |
| Literature: |
Binns, B. (1968). A First Check List of the Herbaceous Flora of Malawi The Government Printer, Zomba, Malawi Page 20. As Brachystelma plocamoides Bruyns, P.V., Klak, C. & Hanáček, P. (2018). An account of Ceropegia sect. Chamaesiphon (Apocynaceae) in Moçambique with new records and two new species Phytotaxa 364(2) Pages 127 - 128. (Includes a picture). Goyder, D.J., Gilbert, M.G. & Venter, H.J.T. (2020). Apocynaceae (Part 2) Flora Zambesiaca 7(2) Pages 178 - 179. 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. As Brachystelma plocamoides |
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