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Ceropegia arenaria

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Holotype of Ceropegia distincta N.E.Br. subsp. verruculosa R.A.Dyer [family APOCYNACEAE]
Isotype of Ceropegia arenaria R.A.Dyer [family APOCYNACEAE]
Ceropegia arenaria R.A.Dyer
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Identification
Ceropegia arenaria R.A.Dyer [family APOCYNACEAE ]
Related name
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Flora

Entry for Ceropegia arenaria [family ASCLEPIADACEAE]
Herbarium
South African National Biodiversity Institute, Compton Herbarium, Cape Town (SAM)
Collection
Flora of Southern Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of South Africa, (2003) Author: Dr J.P. Roux
Names
Ceropegia arenaria [family ASCLEPIADACEAE]
Information
Rootstock perennial, producing a cluster of somewhat succulent roots. Stems prostrate or rambling (not found twining), sometimes rooting at nodes, succulent, ±3,5 mm thick, glabrous, sometimes slightly mottled. Leaves petiolate; petiole ±7 mm long; blade somewhat succulent, broadly ovate-oblong to lanceolate, sometimes much reduced and appearing obsolete, up to 40 x 25 mm. Peduncles up to 15 mm long, spreading. Flowers 2-several in succession. Sepals narrowly lanceolate, 4-5 mm long, spreading, with ring ofsmall scales round base of corolla. Corolla up to about 60 mm long, glabrous outside; tube ±35 mm long, with basal inflation ± 14 mm long and slightly narrowed upwards, then abruptly spreading into a subglobose inflation 6-7 mm diam., without internal annulus between inflations, cylindric above and widening to ±15 mm at throat, with few downward-directed bulbous-based hairs from upper end, upper inflation longitudinally purple-blotched; corolla lobes linear-spathulate, 20-25 mm long, united at tips, slightly converging at middle, with margins strongly replicate, with long sprea­ding hairs towards base and long purple, clavate, vibratile hairs towards apex, purplish. Corona with shortly tubular base; outer lobes 3 mm high, deeply 3-dentate, the middle tooth shortest; inner lobes incumbent-erect, linear, ±3 mm long.
Habitat
This species most closely resembles the tropical taxon C. denticulata K. Schum. var. brownii (Ledger) Bally, which Huber erroneously placed under C. nilotica. It still remains to be determined whether a climbing form exists.
Use
20. Ceropegia arenaria R. A. Dyer in Bothalia 12,3: 444 (1978). Type: Natal, Zululand, near Lake Mpangazi in CDastal dune forest, Strey 5031 (PRE, holo.!; NH!).
Range
Recorded from the coastal dune vegetation of Zululand, Natal, near Lake Mpangazi and Sordwana Bay.

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