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Brachystelma plocamoides
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Photo: Douglas Laing
Lusaka NE, Hummels' farm
Photo: Mike Bingham
Lusaka, cultivated at Protea Hill Farm from seed collected Chisamba, Wardy Farm.
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| Synonyms: |
Brachystelma linearifolium Turrill Brachystelma mortonii Walker Brachystelma parviflorum Morton Ceropegia plocamoides (Oliv.) Bruyns |
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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. |
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| Habitat: | Open woodland on compacted bare soil. |
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| Worldwide distribution: | Tanzania, Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia and Zimbabwe |
| Mozambique distribution: | MS |
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| Literature: |
Binns, B. (1968). A First Check List of the Herbaceous Flora of Malawi The Government Printer, Zomba, Malawi Page 20. 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. As Ceropegia plocamoides (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. |
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Kew Herbarium catalogue: Brachystelma plocamoides
Mansfeld World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops: Brachystelma plocamoides
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