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Riocreuxia polyantha
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Lusaka SE, grown from seed Lusaka West; Feb 2011.
Photo: Mike Bingham
Lusaka SE, grown from seed Lusaka West; Dec 1998.
Photo: Mike Bingham
Picture: Douglas Laing
Lya, Luanshya.
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| Synonyms: |
Ceropegia burchellii (K. Schum.) Huber subsp. profusa (N.E.Br.) Huber Ceropegia burchellii (K. Schum.) H. Huber Riocreuxia burchellii K. Schum. Riocreuxia flanaganii Schltr. subsp. segregata R.A. Dyer Riocreuxia profusa N.E. Br. |
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| Frequency: | |
| Status: | Native |
| Description: |
Strong climber or liane. Stems with clear latex. Leaves opposite, heart-shaped. Flowers in many-flowered branched heads. Corolla with a white tube and yellow to pale orange slender lobes, united at the apices, forming a cage. |
| Type location: |
South Africa |
| Notes: | |
| Derivation of specific name: | polyantha: many-flowered |
| Habitat: | At margins of montane evergreen forest and dambo termite mounds. |
| Altitude range: | 1000 - 2100 m |
| Flowering time: | |
| Worldwide distribution: | Angola, Rwanda, Burundi, Tanzania, Malawi, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Lesotho, Eswatini and South Africa. |
| Zambian distribution (Flora Zambesiaca): | N,W,C,E,S |
| Zambian distribution (Provinces): | Cb,Mc,Lk |
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| Endemic status: | |
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| Insects associated with this species: | |
| Spot characters: | Display spot characters for this species |
| Content last updated: | Wednesday 13 August 2014 |
| Literature: |
Binns, B. (1968). A First Check List of the Herbaceous Flora of Malawi The Government Printer, Zomba, Malawi Page 20. as Ceropegia burchellii subsp. profusa, Riocreuxia burchellii and R. profusa Burrows, J.E. & Willis, C.K. (eds) (2005). Plants of the Nyika Plateau Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 31 SABONET, Pretoria Page 73. as Riocreuxia profusa (Includes a picture). Goyder, D.J., Gilbert, M.G. & Venter, H.J.T. (2020). Apocynaceae (Part 2) Flora Zambesiaca 7(3) Pages 86 - 88. (Includes a picture). Mapaura, A. & Timberlake, J. (eds) (2004). A checklist of Zimbabwean vascular plants Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 33 Sabonet, Pretoria and Harare Page 22. as Riocreuxia profusa Masinde, P.S. (2005). A revision of the African genus Riocreuxia Decne. (Apocynaceae: Asclepiadoideae-Ceropegieae) Kew Bulletin 60(3) Pages 412 - 415. (Includes a picture). |
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