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Ceropegia aristolochioides

Botanic Family

Apocynaceae

Author

Decaisne

Propagation

C.S.

Common Names

Geographical Habitats

• Burkina Faso
• Cameroon
• Central African Republic
• Chad
• Eritrea
• Ethiopia
• Gambia
• Kenya
• Mali
• Niger
• Saudi Arabia
• Senegal
• Somalia
• Sudan
• Tanzania
• Togo
• Uganda
• Yemen
• Zaire

Natural Habitats

• Forest
• woodland

Flowering Times

Fruiting Times

Tuberous twiner with glabrous stems, glabrous leaves to 85mm x 60mm, glabrous lateral umbels or raceme with small bracts, 15mm purple flowers, glabrous sepals 3mm long, corolla 22mm long, curved corolla tube 18mm long inflated at base to 6mm diameter 8mm diameter at mouth glabrous outside, glabrous dark purple lobes 6mm long with crisped margins, hairy outer coonal lobes, inner coronal lobes glabrous

Further References

• Huxley 1992
• Mobot
• FCP
• The Plant List 2
• de Candolle
• FOTA
• Kew