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Ceropegia torulosa

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Syntype of Ceropegia torulosa E.Mey. [family APOCYNACEAE]
Syntype of Riocreuxia torulosa (E. Mey.) Decne. [family ASCLEPIADACEAE]
Isosyntype of Ceropegia torulosa E.Mey. [family APOCYNACEAE]
Isosyntype of Ceropegia torulosa E.Mey.; nom. illeg. [family APOCYNACEAE]
Syntype of Ceropegia torulosa E.Mey. [family APOCYNACEAE]
Syntype of Ceropegia torulosa E.Mey. [family APOCYNACEAE]
Syntype of Riocreuxia torulosa Decne. [family ASCLEPIADACEAE]
Type of Ceropegia torulosa E.Mey. [family ASCLEPIADACEAE]
Riocreuxia torulosa Decne. [family ASCLEPIADACEAE]
Syntype of Riocreuxia profusa N. E. Br. [family APOCYNACEAE]
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Identification
Riocreuxia torulosa Decne. [family ASCLEPIADACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by HBG-formal name change, Ceropegia torulosa E. Meyer nom. illeg. [family ASCLEPIADACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet,
Related name
  • Riocreuxia torulosa
  • Ceropegia torulosa
  • Ceropegia effusa

Flora

Entry for RIOCREUXIA torulosa Decne [family ASCLEPIADACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, Vol 4, page 518, (1909) Author: By N. E. BROWN.
Names
RIOCREUXIA torulosa Decne [family ASCLEPIADACEAE], in DC. Prodr. viii. 640;—Delessert, Ic. Pl. v. 38, t. 91; Saund. Ref. Bot. iii. t. 157; Schlechter in Engl. Jahrb. xxi. Beibl. 54, 12; Journ. Bot. 1897, 295, and in Ann. Naturhist. Hofmus. Wien, xviii. 398, not elsewhere.
Ceropegia torulosa E. Meyer [family ASCLEPIADACEAE], Comm. 194; Dietr. Syn. Pl. ii. 891, not of Haworth.
Information
stem twining, pubescent nearly or quite all round; leaves herbaceous, somewhat adpressed-pubescent on both sides, often more densely so beneath; petiole 1/2–2 1/2 in. long; blade 1 1/4–5 in. long, 2/3–3 3/4 in. broad, elongated cordate-ovate or more rarely broadly cordate-ovate, acuminate; peduncles 1–3 at each stem-node, slender, 1/3–3 1/2 in. long, bent at the nodes, pubescent, bearing 2–3 distant umbel-like fascicles (rarely only 1 fascicle) of 2–15 flowers, with or without an additional fascicle sessile at the node; pedicels 1/4–1 1/3 in. long, glabrous or pubescent throughout, or minutely pubescent on the apical part and glabrous below; sepals about 1 lin. long, lanceolate, acuminate, pubescent; corolla glabrous, pale yellow, more or less tinged with red or purplish; tube 3 1/2–5 lin. long, globose or ovoid-inflated at the base; lobes connivent-erect, connate at the tips, 2 1/2–4 lin. long, linear-attenuate; outer corona of 5 subulate or filiform and entire or linear-subulate and bifid lobes, horizontally radiating high above the base of the staminal column, yellowish or purple, alternating with 5 pairs of minute or elongated teeth (sometimes nearly or quite obsolete) placed just below or forming one series with them; inner corona-lobes closely pressed against the staminal column, minute, reaching to about the base of the anthers, thin, oblong, obtuse; staminal column about 1 lin. long; follicles subparallel or curved, 3–7 in. long, 1/8 in. thick, linear-terete, with constrictions between the seeds 1–5 lin. long, tapering into a slender beak at the apex, smooth, glabrous or rarely pubescent; seeds 3 1/2–4 1/2 lin. long, 3/4 lin. broad, linear or linear-lanceolate, concave on one side, glabrous, dark brown. null
Distribution
COAST REGION in George district, Bowie! Knysna Div.; near the Keurbooms River, Burchell, 5154! Humansdorp Div.; Kromme River Valley, Bolus, 2401! Uitenhage or Alexandria Div.; between Hoffmans Kloof and Driefontein, Drège, 2270! Albany Div., Bowker! Fort Beaufort Div.; Cooper, 1758! Stockenstrom Div.; Kat Berg, 1000 ft., Bowker! near Kachu (Yellowwood) River, Drège, 4944! Eastern Frontier, MacOwan, 434! Kaffraria; Evelyn Valley, 4000 ft., Sim, 1645! and without precise locality, Cooper, 298!EASTERN REGION Transkei; around Kentani, 900 ft., Miss Pegler, 877! near Idutywa, Schlechter, 6269! and without precise locality, Bowker, 209! Tembuland; near the Chwerka River, Bolus, 10195! Engcobo Mountain, Bolus, 10196! near Umtata, Bolus, 10197! Natal; near Durban, Drège! Plant, 73! Wood in MacOwan, Herb. Austr.-Afr., 1732! Inanda, McKen, 3! Wood, 512! Nonoti River, Gerrard, 643! and without precise locality, Gueinzius! Gerrard, 150! Var. β: Transkei; Fort Bowker, Bowker, 572! Natal; Greenwich Farm, Riet Vlei, Galpin, 5724! South Downs, 5000 ft., Wood, 4392! Lynedock, Wood, 4540! Weston, Rehmann, 7353! near Van Reenens Pass, Wood, 4539!KALAHARI REGION Transvaal, Rehmann, 5876! Var. β: Basutoland, Cooper, 2719 partly! Orange River Colony; Harrismith, Sankey, 316! Var. γ: Transvaal; slopes of Marovunye near Shiluvane, Junod, 724! Var. δ; Transvaal; by the Crocodile River (probably near Pretoria), Miss Leendertz, 708!SOUTH AFRICA without locality, Zeyher, 1153 partly!
Notes
The corona of this plant either varies considerably or more than one species is here included, but from dried material I am unable to discriminate more than the forms indicated. Dr. Bolus' specimens 10195, 10196, 10197, have a rather more inflated corolla, which dries of a more reddish tint than usual, but otherwise seem the same as the other specimens quoted. The genus requires to be studied from living specimens. Asclepias peltigera, Schlechter, has also been distributed by Cooper as no. 2719.

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