Ceropegia schliebenii
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Nyika plateau, Zambia
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| Synonyms: |
Ceropegia stenoloba Hochst. ex Chiov. var. schliebenii (Markgr.) Masinde |
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| Status: | Native |
| Description: |
Slender perennial twining herb with clear latex, growing from a tuberous root. Leaves opposite linear-lanceolate. Flowers purplish with a deep tube and long spidery lobes, spreading, not united at the tips. |
| Type location: |
Tanzania |
| Notes: | |
| Derivation of specific name: | schliebenii: after Hans-Joachim Eberhardt Schlieben (1902-1975), German botanist, photographer, and writer who collected in Tanzania and South Africa. |
| Habitat: | In shallow soils over rock. |
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| Worldwide distribution: | Southern Tanzania, northern Malawi end northeastern Zambia. |
| FZ divisions: | N |
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| Endemic status: | Near Endemic |
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| Spot characters: | Display spot characters for this species |
| Literature: |
Burrows, J.E. & Willis, C.K. (eds) (2005). Plants of the Nyika Plateau Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 31 SABONET, Pretoria Pages 69 - 70. (Includes a picture). Goyder, D.J., Gilbert, M.G. & Venter, H.J.T. (2020). Apocynaceae (Part 2) Flora Zambesiaca 7(2) Pages 135 - 140. (Includes a picture). |
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