Ceropegia sect. Janthina H. Huber, Mem. Soc. Brot.
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https://doi.org/10.22244/rheedea.2019.29.1.01 |
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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/120287E4-E924-D867-FF79-A785FAF1FC0F |
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Ceropegia sect. Janthina H. Huber, Mem. Soc. Brot. |
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Ceropegia sect. Janthina H. Huber, Mem. Soc. Brot. 12: 29. 1957; Bruyns, S. African J. Bot. 112: 429. 2017. Type: Ceropegia elegans Wall.
Evergreen climbers with fibrous or slightly swollen roots. Leaves cordate to ovate-lanceolate, petiolate, glabrous to puberulous. Flowers 2–8 in cymes. Corolla tube usually with ring of hairs at the throat of dilated part within.
Distribution: Eleven species in the world; southeast Asia ( India, Sri Lanka, Malaysia), Malesia (Philipines), northern Australia. In India the section is represented by 10 species and is distributed in the southern Western Ghats up to Andaman Islands ( Table 1).
Key to the species of sect. Janthina H. Huber
1. Corolla lobes equal or longer than tube .......... 2
1. Corolla lobes shorter than tube ........................ 4
2. Inner corona lobes clavate .......... C. andamanica View in CoL 2. Inner corona lobes linear ................................. 3
3. Dilated part of corolla tube globose ................... ...................................................... C. decaisneana View in CoL
3. Dilated part of corolla tube elongated ............... ......................................................... C. metziana View in CoL
4. Corolla c. 2 cm long .......................... C. maculata View in CoL
4. Corolla longer than 2 cm ................................. 5
5. Outer corona shorter than inner ..................... 6
5. Outer corona equal to the inner ........ C. elegans View in CoL
6. Corolla lobes hairy along margins .................. 7
6. Corolla lobes glabrous along margins ............ 9
7. Inner corona lobes clavate ............ C. intermedia View in CoL
7. Inner corona lobes linear ................................. 8
8. Cymes up to 3-flowered ............... C. manoharii View in CoL
8. Cymes up to 7-flowered .......... C. schumanniana View in CoL
9. Cymes up to 6-flowered ................. C. thwaitesii View in CoL
9. Cymes up to 3-flowered .................. C. gardneri View in CoL
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Ceropegia sect. Janthina H. Huber, Mem. Soc. Brot.
| S. S., Kambale & Abstract, S. R. Yadav 2019 |
Ceropegia sect. Janthina H. Huber, Mem. Soc. Brot.
| Bruyns 2017: 429 |
| H. Huber 1957: 29 |