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Riocreuxia woodii

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Type of Ceropegia flanaganii H.Huber var. fallax [family ASCLEPIADACEAE]
Riocreuxia woodii N.E.Br. [family ASCLEPIADACEAE]
Type of Riocreuxia woodii N.E.Br. [family APOCYNACEAE]
Riocreuxia woodii N.E.Br. [family ASCLEPIADACEAE]
Riocreuxia woodii N.E.Br. [family ASCLEPIADACEAE]
Syntype of Riocreuxia woodii N.E.Br. [family APOCYNACEAE]
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Identification
Ceropegia flanaganii H.Huber [family ASCLEPIADACEAE ] Riocreuxia woodii N.E.Br. [family ASCLEPIADACEAE ] Ceropegia woodii Schltr. [family ASCLEPIADACEAE ] (stored under name);
Related name
  • Ceropegia woodii
  • Riocreuxia flanaganii
  • Riocreuxia polyantha
  • Riocreuxia woodii
  • Ceropegia flanaganii

Flora

Entry for RIOCREUXIA Woodii N. E. Br. [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 Woodii N. E. Br. [family ASCLEPIADACEAE]
Information
stem twining, unifariously puberulous; leaves herbaceous, very thinly and shortly pubescent on both sides; petiole 1/2–1 in. long; blade 1 1/2–2 1/2 in. long, 1/2–1 in. broad at the base, or perhaps larger, rather narrowly elongated deltoid-cordate or cordate-lanceolate, acute or acuminate; peduncle moderately stout, 1–2 3/4 in. long, bearing 2 distant umbels, with or without a third one at its base, puberulous along one side; umbels 8–24-flowered, somewhat flat-topped; pedicels 5–9 lin. long, glabrous, all more or less incurved; sepals 1–1 1/2 lin. long, subulate or subulate-lanceolate, glabrous; corolla-tube 3 1/2–4 lin. long, globose-inflated at the base, glabrous, apparently pale yellowish or whitish; lobes connivent-erect, 3 1/2–4 lin. long, attenuate-linear, glabrous, drying dark brown; outer corona-lobes radiately spreading, 1/3 lin. long, 1/2 lin. broad at the base, narrowly deltoid or deltoid-ovate, obtuse, subtruncate or minutely notched at the apex, concave-channelled down the face, without any teeth alternating with them; inner corona-lobes linear or linear-subulate, acute or obtuse, nearly as long as the anthers and closely applied to their backs. null
Distribution
EASTERN REGION Natal; Inanda, Wood, 338! and in Herb. Natal, 181!
Notes
A species of Scilla has also been distributed by Mr. Wood as no. 181.

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