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Ceropegia bulbosa Roxb.

Specimen

UM-MPU-MPU012238

Taxonomy

Apocynaceae
Ceropegia bulbosa Roxb.

Origin

Bilad Fodhli, In wadi el "itreys" (6 hor-ad orient. urb. Schughra)
fl
1890-3-23
Herba diffusa, debilis dichotome ramosa, ramis striatis, pubescentibus. Folia opposita, breviter petiolata, carnosula, glaberrima, ambitu varia, tunc ovata obtusa, tunc orbiculata - emarginata, mucronata, margine plus minus repanda, basi late truncata - cuneata vel subcordata, in petiolum abrupte attenuata. Cymae umbelliformes pauciflorae, pedunculatae, axillares, alteinae, pedicellis pedunculo sesquilongioribus, bractealis setacees involucratis. Calyx minimus, 5-partitus, segmentis linearibus acutis, 1-nervis, herbaceis, glabris. Corolla mediocris, lutea, glabra, tubo angusto superne sensim angustato, "fance" in annulum transversum prominalum, cancatum, 5-cuspidatum abrupt plicato, lobis linearibus obtusis, in cylindrum latiusculum clausum, apice breviter dilatato - globosum cohaerentibus. F.: lamenta in tubum longiusculum basi corollae "affiscum" cornata; antherae erectae, ovatae, "cornectivo" obtuso acuminatae. Carpella in stylos elongatos abeantes. Follicula... Fol. 2-2 1/2 cent. long. 1 1/2- 2 1/2 cent. lat., petiol 3-5 mill. long., peduncul. 8-10 mill., pedicell. 12-14 mill. calyx 1 1/2-2 mill., coroll. 2-3 cent. long.

Determination history

Bruyns 25/11/2019
HOLOTYPE
cf. Deflers in Bull. Soc. Bot. fr. 43: 112-113. 1896