- Family: Apocynaceae Juss.
- Genus: Ceropegia L.
Ceropegia kituloensis Masinde & F.Albers
- Genus: Ceropegia L.
This species is accepted, and its native range is SW. Tanzania.
[FTEA]
Apocynaceae (part 2), David Goyder, Timothy Harris, Siro Masinde, Ulrich Meve, Johan Venter. Flora of Tropical East Africa, 2012
- Habit
- Dwarf, erect herb 7–18 cm high.
- Exudate
- Latex colour unknown.
- Roots
- Rootstock roundish tuber, ± 10 × 8 mm deep, smooth.
- Stem
- Stems herbaceous, leafy, rarely branching, ± 1.5 mm diameter, with 2 rows of whitish-translucent pubescence
- Leaves
- Leaves herbaceous; petiole 1–2 mm long; stipules interpetiolar, of minute tufts of hairs; lamina narrowly ovatelanceolate or narrowly-elliptic, (0.8–)12–33 × 3–9 mm, base acuminate, apex acute, green, pubescent above, ± glabrous or sparsely pubescent beneath, margins finely ciliate
- Inflorescences
- Inflorescence extra-axillary, 1-flowered, sessile; single accompanying bract lanceolate-subulate, 2–3 × 1 mm, acute; pedicel 5–11 mm long
- Calyx
- Sepals narrowlylanceolate, 2–6 × 5 mm, apically recurved, abaxially pubescent
- Corolla
- Corolla 26–38 mm long; tube 18–21 mm long, in basal ± 1/4– 1/3 with a globose inflation ± 6 × 7 mm, narrowing into an ascending cylindrical part ± 2.5 mm diameter, expanding gradually to ± 3.5 mm diameter in throat; exterior greenish, glabrous; interior colour unknown, completely glabrous including basal inflation; lobes erect, linear, 10–22 × ± 1 mm, apically connate, margins recurved, apically brownish or blackish, entirely glabrous adaxially and abaxially including margins
- Corona
- Corona subsessile, ± 3 × 3 mm, basally cupular; inner lobes connivent-erect or free, spatulate, ± 2 × 0.3 mm, glabrous; outer lobes suberectly spreading, forming 5 open pockets, each ± 1.4 × 1.4 mm, margins entire, glabrous
- Gynostegium
- Gynostegium subsessile
- Anthers
- Anthers incumbent on and overtopping stylar head, guide rails 0.3–0.6 mm long, ± straight, well exposed, not widened at base.
- Pollinia
- Pollinia 0.25–0.31 × 0.17–0.24 mm; corpusculum obovate, 0.14–0.19 × 0.05–0.06 mm
- Fruits
- Follicles and seed unknown.
- Ecology
- On ± treeless crests of Kitulo Plateau, in rocky ground; 2400–2750 m
- Note
- C. kituloensis is related to C. achtenii and probably also to C. gilgiana and C. abyssinica. The specimen, Richards 7560 (K), Kitulo [Elton] Plateau, 2400 m, 7 Jan. 1957, may be a hybrid between C. achtenii De Wild. and C. kituloensis and not C. achtenii C. abyssinica Decne. as previously supposed by H. Huber in his determination of 1957. It shows a much closer resemblance to C. kituloensis in its flowers and bifarious-hairy stems but it has a climbing habit. Another collection showing intermediate characteristics between C. achtenii and C. kituloensis is Bidgood et al. 2319 from Chunya District: 8 km on Makongolosi-Mbeya road, 17 Feb. 1994.
- Distribution
- Flora districts: T7 Range: Not known elsewhere
Native to:
Tanzania
Ceropegia kituloensis Masinde & F.Albers appears in other Kew resources:
Date | Reference | Identified As | Barcode | Type Status |
---|---|---|---|---|
Jan 1, 2001 | Leedal, G.P. [5293], Tanzania | K000305481 | holotype | |
Jan 1, 2001 | Leedal, G.P. [5293], Tanzania | K000305480 | holotype |
First published in Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 122: 162 (2000)
Accepted by
- Goyder, S., Harris, T., Masinde, S., Meve, U. & Venter, J. (2012). Flora of Tropical East Africa, Apocynaceae(2): 1-530.
- Govaerts, R. (2001). World Checklist of Seed Plants Database in ACCESS E-F: 1-50919.
Literature
Flora of Tropical East Africa
- E.J. 122: 161 (2000).
Flora of Tropical East Africa
Flora of Tropical East Africa
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