Ceropegia racemosa

Ceropegia racemosa

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Gentianales
Classification System: APG IV Superregnum: Eukaryota Regnum: Plantae Cladus: Angiosperms Cladus: Eudicots Cladus: Core eudicots Cladus: Asterids Cladus: Lamiids Ordo: Gentianales

Familia: Apocynaceae
Subfamilia: Asclepiadoideae
Tribus: Ceropegieae
Subtribus: Stapeliinae
Genus: Ceropegia
Species: Ceropegia racemosa
Subspecies & Varieties: C. r. subsp. glabra – C. r. subsp. racemosa – C. r. subsp. secamonoides – C. r. subsp. setifera – C. r. var. tanganyikensis – C. r. var. voiensis

Name

Ceropegia racemosa N.E.Br., 1895

Distribution

Native distribution areas:

Continental: Africa Regional: Tropical Africa Angola, Benin, Burkina, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Repu, Chad, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Ivory Coast, Kenya, KwaZulu-Natal, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Northern Provinces, Senegal, Socotra, Somalia, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zaïre, Zimbabwe References: Brummitt, R.K. 2001. TDWG – World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, 2nd Edition

References

Primary references

Brown, N.E., 1895. Bull. Misc. Inform. Kew 1895: 262

Additional references

• Goyder, S., Harris, T., Masinde, S., Meve, U. & Venter, J. (2012). Flora of Tropical East Africa, Apocynaceae(2): 1-530.

Links

• Govaerts, R. et al. 2022. Ceropegia racemosa in Kew Science Plants of the World Online. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published online. Accessed: 2022 December 04. Reference page. 
• Hassler, M. 2022. Ceropegia racemosa. World Plants: Synonymic Checklists of the Vascular Plants of the World In: Roskovh, Y., Abucay, L., Orrell, T., Nicolson, D., Bailly, N., Kirk, P., Bourgoin, T., DeWalt, R.E., Decock, W., De Wever, A., Nieukerken, E. van, Zarucchi, J. & Penev, L., eds. 2022. Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life. Published online. Accessed: 2022 December 04. Reference page. 
• Tropicos.org 2022. Ceropegia racemosa. Missouri Botanical Garden. Published online. Accessed: 04 December 2022.
• International Plant Names Index. 2022. Ceropegia racemosa. Published online. Accessed: December 04 2022.

Vernacular names

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