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Ceropegia sandersonii [family ASCLEPIADACEAE]
Date Updated: 19 August 2007
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 sandersonii [family ASCLEPIADACEAE]
Common names
C. monteiroae Hook. f. in Curtis's bot. Mag. t.6927 (1887); N.E. Br. in F.C. 4,1: 816 (1908). Type: Delagoa Bay, Monteiro (K, holo.!).
Information
Rootstock producing cluster of long, succulent, cylindric roots. Stems perennial (?), twining up to ±2m high, 5 mm thick, fleshy, glabrous, slightly verrucose. Leaves fleshy, glabrous; petiole up to 6 mm long; blade ovate-lanceolate to cordate-ovate, 20-50 x 12-25 mm, sometimes cuspidate-acute. Flowers 2-4 in pedunculate cymes, developed in succession; peduncle up to 10 mm long; pedicels up to 10 mm long. Sepals linear-oblong, acute, 6-7 mm long. Corolla 40-70 mm long; tube 25-50 mm long, with oblong basal inflation ±6 mm diam., narrowed and usually somewhat curved above inflation, then expanded towards the funnel-shaped mouth to 15-25 mm diam., with few hairs near base within, light green on inflation, striped with green and white above; lobes united above and opening into a 5-keeled, flattish or umbrella-like canopy 25-50 mm diam., apiculate from centre, supported by 5 broad bases with wide openings between; margin of canopy with long white to purple vibratile hairs. Corona basin-shaped, 1 mm deep, ciliate with white hairs; inner lobes arising from within basin, incumbent-erect, linear-filiform, 3 mm long. Follicles spreading horizontally, 75-130 mm long, 7-8 mm thick, irregularly rugose and tuberculate, purplish-tinted. Fig. 9: 4.
Habitat
The variation in the size of the flowers and in the spread and elevation of the canopy of the corolla, is such, that a form from Mozambique, Zululand and Natal with pendulous, purple cilia from the canopy was given specific rank as C. monteiroae. Schlechter even confused this form with C. fimbriata. To add to the complications, C. sandersonii is claimed to hybridize with such species as C. radicans and C. elegans Wall. ( = C. similis N.E. Br), but as these hybrids are not produced in the veld, they need not be documented.
Use
14. Ceropegia sandersonii Decne. ex Hook.f. in Curtis's bot. Mag. t.5792 (1869); N.E. Br. in F.C. 4,1: 815 (1908); Phillips in Flower. PI. S. Afr. t.143 (1924); Huber in Mems Soc. broteriana 12: 106 (1958). Type: Natal, Sanderson (K, holo.!).
Range
From the hot south-eastern Transvaal lowveld to Swaziland, Zululand and the warmer parts of Natal, as far south as Port Shepstone; usually climbÂing in scrub.
Date Updated: 19 August 2007
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 sandersonii [family ASCLEPIADACEAE]
Common names
C. monteiroae Hook. f. in Curtis's bot. Mag. t.6927 (1887); N.E. Br. in F.C. 4,1: 816 (1908). Type: Delagoa Bay, Monteiro (K, holo.!).
Information
Rootstock producing cluster of long, succulent, cylindric roots. Stems perennial (?), twining up to ±2m high, 5 mm thick, fleshy, glabrous, slightly verrucose. Leaves fleshy, glabrous; petiole up to 6 mm long; blade ovate-lanceolate to cordate-ovate, 20-50 x 12-25 mm, sometimes cuspidate-acute. Flowers 2-4 in pedunculate cymes, developed in succession; peduncle up to 10 mm long; pedicels up to 10 mm long. Sepals linear-oblong, acute, 6-7 mm long. Corolla 40-70 mm long; tube 25-50 mm long, with oblong basal inflation ±6 mm diam., narrowed and usually somewhat curved above inflation, then expanded towards the funnel-shaped mouth to 15-25 mm diam., with few hairs near base within, light green on inflation, striped with green and white above; lobes united above and opening into a 5-keeled, flattish or umbrella-like canopy 25-50 mm diam., apiculate from centre, supported by 5 broad bases with wide openings between; margin of canopy with long white to purple vibratile hairs. Corona basin-shaped, 1 mm deep, ciliate with white hairs; inner lobes arising from within basin, incumbent-erect, linear-filiform, 3 mm long. Follicles spreading horizontally, 75-130 mm long, 7-8 mm thick, irregularly rugose and tuberculate, purplish-tinted. Fig. 9: 4.
Habitat
The variation in the size of the flowers and in the spread and elevation of the canopy of the corolla, is such, that a form from Mozambique, Zululand and Natal with pendulous, purple cilia from the canopy was given specific rank as C. monteiroae. Schlechter even confused this form with C. fimbriata. To add to the complications, C. sandersonii is claimed to hybridize with such species as C. radicans and C. elegans Wall. ( = C. similis N.E. Br), but as these hybrids are not produced in the veld, they need not be documented.
Use
14. Ceropegia sandersonii Decne. ex Hook.f. in Curtis's bot. Mag. t.5792 (1869); N.E. Br. in F.C. 4,1: 815 (1908); Phillips in Flower. PI. S. Afr. t.143 (1924); Huber in Mems Soc. broteriana 12: 106 (1958). Type: Natal, Sanderson (K, holo.!).
Range
From the hot south-eastern Transvaal lowveld to Swaziland, Zululand and the warmer parts of Natal, as far south as Port Shepstone; usually climbÂing in scrub.
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