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Ceropegia variegata

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Name

Identification
Ceropegia variegata (Forssk.) Decne. [family ASCLEPIADACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Data not digitized, Ceropegia devecchii Chiov. [family ASCLEPIADACEAE ] Verified by Data not digitized,
Related name
  • Ceropegia devecchii
  • Ceropegia variegata

Flora

Entry for CEROPEGIA variegata Decne. [family ASCLEPIADACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Somalia
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Somalia, Vol 3, (2006) Author: by M. Gilbert (Ceropegia), D. Goyder (Calotropis, Conomitra, Glossonema, Gomphocarpus, Leptadenia, Marsdenia, Odontanthera, Oxystelma, Pentatropis, Pergularia, Secamone, Stigmatorhynchus, Tylophora), J. Lavranos (Ballyanthus, Caralluma, Desmidorchis, Duvalia, Echidnopsis, Edithcolea, Huernia, Orbea, Pseudolithos, Pseudopectinaria, Rhytidocaulon, Sanguilluma, Whitesloanea), S. Liede-Schumann (Blyttia, Calciphila, Cynanchum, Goydera, Pentarrhinum, Pleurostelma, Schizostephanus), M. Thulin (Acokanthera, Adenium, Ancylobotrys, Carissa, Catharanthus, Cryptostegia, Ephippiocarpa, Hunteria, Landolphia, Nerium, Plumeria, Saba, Strophanthus, Tabernaemontana, Thevetia, Wrightia), and J. Venter (Buckollia, Cryptolepis, Periploca, Raphionacme, Schlechterella, Tacazzea). [updated by M. Thulin 2008]
Names
CEROPEGIA variegata Decne. [family ASCLEPIADACEAE], (1838). Plate 2A.
CEROPEGIA devecchii Chiov. [family ASCLEPIADACEAE], (1932);. type: S1, “Bur Acaba”, Senni 459 (FT holo.).
CEROPEGIA variegata Huber var. cornigera [family ASCLEPIADACEAE], in Mem. Soc. Brot. 12: 141 (1957);. type: S1, “Bur Acaba”, Senni 459 (FT holo.).
CEROPEGIA devecchii Bally var. adelaidae [family ASCLEPIADACEAE], in Candollea 29: 390 (1974).
Information
Climbing herb, glabrous except for the corolla; base of stem swollen in seedlings but otherwise without basal tuber or fusiform roots; stems very fleshy, up to 1 cm thick, smooth, usually irregularly blotched with pinkish-brown, twining only towards tip. Leaves reduced to fleshy ovate scales, soon lost. Inflorescence a pedunculate few-flowered, raceme-like cyme, peduncle longer than pedicels. Sepals ± linear. Corolla up to 6 cm long, outside glabrous; tube up to 45 mm long, basal swelling double, the lower swelling ovoid, uniformly grey, demarcated from upper swelling by well-defined constriction marking position of internal annulus, upper swelling spotted with red, the 2 together c. 1/2 as long as tube which widens gradually to mouth, interior glabrous except for band of cilia at top of upper chamber; lobes up to c. 16 mm long, with the sinuses between them produced into very prominent oblong lobes ± as long as corolla-tube, outside grey spotted with red, interior brilliant white with dark red tips to lobes, uniformly pilose. Outer corona of 10 slender erect lobes; inner corona-lobes similar to outer lobes. Follicles fusiform-cylindrical with blunt ± swollen tips.
Range
N1, 2; S1, 2
Altitude range
90–1300 m.
Distribution
SOMALIA Gillett 4073; Lavranos & Horwood 10351; Thulin, Hedrén & Abdi Dahir 7149.
Distribution (external)
Ethiopia
Kenya
Arabia
Notes
A species with a corolla that is remarkable even by Ceropegia standards. Most material from Ethiopia and Somalia is uniform and a good match for the type of C. devecchii. However, some collections from Somalia and Kenya have longer corolla-lobes and much shorter sinus-lobes and match the Arabian type of C. variegata, whilst Lavranos & Horwood 10351 is close to C. devecchii var. adelaidae, which has very short corolla-lobes and long, slightly upcurved sinus-lobes. The lack of any obvious geographical basis to this variation suggests that formal infraspecific taxa are not worthy of recognition.

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