Apocynaceae
Ceropegia

Ceropegia gypsophila Thulin

First published in Kew Bull. 64: 480 (2009)
This species is accepted
The native range of this species is E. Ethiopia. It is a climbing shrub and grows primarily in the seasonally dry tropical biome.

Distribution

Native to:

Ethiopia

Classification

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Publications

POWO follows these authorities in accepting this name:

  • Govaerts, R., Nic Lughadha, E., Black, N., Turner, R. & Paton, A. (2021). The World Checklist of Vascular Plants, a continuously updated resource for exploring global plant diversity. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-021-00997-6. Scientific Data 8: 215.

Kew Bulletin

  • Gilbert, M. G. (1990). A review of Caralluma R. Br. and its segregates. Bradleya 8: 1 – 32.
  • Masinde, P. S. (2004). Two new Ceropegia (Apocynaceae: Asclepiadoideae-Ceropegieae) species from Kenya. Kew Bull. 59: 241 – 245.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
  • Meve, U. & Liede, S. (2002). A molecular phylogeny and generic rearrangement of the stapelioidCeropegieae (Apocynaceae-Asclepiadoideae). Pl. Syst. Evol. 234: 171 – 209.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
  • Plowes, D. C. H. (1995). A reclassification of Caralluma R. Brown (Stapelieae: Asclepiadaceae). Haseltonia 3: 49 – 70.
  • ____ (2003). Ceropegia. In: I. Hedberg, S. Edwards & SileshiNemomissa (eds), Flora of Ethiopia and Eritrea 4 (1): 158 – 169. Addis Ababa University & Uppsala University.
  • ____ (2006). Ceropegia. In: M. Thulin (ed.), Flora of Somalia 3: 168 – 173. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.

Other Data

Other Kew resources that provide information on this taxon:

Sources

  • Angiosperm Extinction Risk Predictions v1

    • Angiosperm Threat Predictions
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

  • Herbarium Catalogue Specimens

    • Digital Image © Board of Trustees, RBG Kew http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

  • Kew Backbone Distributions

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2026. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

  • Kew Bulletin

    • Kew Bulletin
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

  • Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2026. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0