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Ceropegia cumingiana

Botanic Family

Apocynaceae

Author

Decaisne

Propagation

C.D.S.

Common Names

• Lopod (Manobo)

Geographical Habitats

• N. Queensland - Australia
• Borneo
• Java
• Lesser Sunda Islands
• Maluku
• Sulawesi - Indonesia
• New Guinea - Papua New Guinea
• Philippines

Natural Habitats

• Montane thickets
• riverside

Flowering Times

• Sep-Nov (Philippines)

Fruiting Times

Evergreen glabrous perennial herbaceous twiner, glabrous leaves to 75mm x 27mm. Few-flowered axillary cymes or umbels of blood-red flowers to 70mm long, or white with brown lobes united at the tip, tip purple, sepals 3mm long, pubescent curved corolla tube to 10mm diameter, lobes to 20mm long, lobes glabrous outside, hairy inside. Fruits are curved pointed follicles 250mm long, often in pairs.

Further References

• Jones & Gray 1977
• Bodkin
• NYBG
• The Plant List 2
• de Candolle
• FA
• Elmer
• Fedde
• Merrill
• Kew