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Ceropegia ellenbeckii

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Name

Identification
Ceropegia ellenbeckii K.Schum. [family ASCLEPIADACEAE ] (stored under name); Ceropegia convolvuloides A.Rich. [family ASCLEPIADACEAE ] Verified by Huber, H.,
Related name
  • Ceropegia ellenbeckii
  • Ceropegia convolvuloides

Flora

Entry for Ceropegia Ellenbeckii K. Schum. [family ASCLEPIADACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol 4, Part 1, page 231, (1904) Author: (By N. E. Brown.)
Names
Ceropegia Ellenbeckii K. Schum. [family ASCLEPIADACEAE], in Engl. Jahrb. xxxiii. 327.
Information
Stem twining, slender, subtomentose on the young parts. Leaves spreading; petiole up to 5 lin. long; blade 1–1 1/3 in. long, 4 1/2–6 lin. broad, lanceolate, acuminate, rounded at the base, pubescent on both sides, but more densely so beneath. Umbels subaxillary, pedunculate, about 5-flowered. Pedicels and the 1 1/3 lin. long narrowly subulate sepals puberulous. Corolla probably brown with yellow tips; tube 1/2 in. long, subglobose-inflated and glabrous at the base, puberulous above; lobes 4 1/2 lin. long, deltoid-ovate, acuminate, auriculate at the base, puberulous on both sides. Outer coronal-lobes 1 1/4 lin. long, bifid at the apex. Inner coronal-lobes 1 1/4 lin. long, filiform.
Distribution
Somaliland Nile Land Gara Mulata, in Harar, 8000 ft., Ellenbeck, 583.

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