Ceropegia sect. Tiloris H. Huber, Mem. Soc. Brot.
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Ceropegia sect. Tiloris H. Huber, Mem. Soc. Brot. |
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Ceropegia sect. Tiloris H. Huber, Mem. Soc. Brot. 12: 33. 1957; Bruyns, S. African J. Bot. 112: 429. 2017. Type: Ceropegia attenuata Hook.
ser. Attenuatae H. Huber , Mem. Soc. Brot. 12: 33. 1957. Type: Ceropegia attenuata .
ser. Pusillae H. Huber, Mem. Soc. Brot. 12: 27. 1957. Type: Ceropegia pusilla Wight & Arn.
Erect slender (except C. arnottiana ) tuberous herbs. Leaves linear-lanceolate, subsessile-sessile, glabrous to puberulous. Flowers solitary or in 3-flowered cymes.
Distribution: Thirty eight species in the world distributed in India and southeast Asia, Malaysia (New Guinea, Philippines) to northern Australia. This section is represented by 13 species in India of which 12 are endemic to Peninsular India ( Table 1).
Key to the species of sect. Tiloris H. Huber
1. Plants erect ........................................................2
1. Plants climbing ............................ C. arnottiana View in CoL
2. Flowers solitary .................................................3
2. Flowers in cymes ...........................................12
3. Corolla lobes shorter than tube ...................... 4
3. Corolla lobes as long as or longer than tube ..9
4. Corolla tube abruptly dilated towards base ... 5
4. Corolla tube gradually dilated towards base ...7
5. Corolla tube cylindrical at throat ....... C. jainii View in CoL
5. Corolla tube funnel-shaped at throat ..............6
6. Corolla lobes glabrous, not twisted ................... ....................................................... C. concanensis View in CoL
6. Corolla lobes glandular hairy, twisted ............... ........................................................ C. nampyana View in CoL
7. Corolla lobes beaked / linear .......... C. mahabalei View in CoL
7. Corolla lobes otherwise ...................................8
8. Corolla lobes lanceolate, forming ampuliform globular cage, puberulent, reflexed.................... ..................................................... C. mohanramii View in CoL
8. Corolla lobes spathulate, forming ovoid cage, glabrous, not reflexed ........................ C. pusilla View in CoL
9. Corolla lobes spirally coiled, hairy ..... C. spiralis View in CoL
9. Corolla lobes not as above ............................ 10
10.Corolla lobes with deep purple spot on either sides at the base .................................. C. anantii View in CoL
10.Corolla lobes without deep purple spot on either sides at the base.................................... 11
11. Flowers c. 7.5 cm long; corolla lobes attenuate. .......................................................... C. attenuata View in CoL
11. Flowers c. 3.5 cm long; corolla lobes obovate... ......................................................... C. anjanerica View in CoL
12.Corolla lobes fimbriate at the base; cage conical .......................................... C. fimbriifera View in CoL
12.Corolla lobes glabrous at the base; cage globular ....................................... C. noorjahaniae View in CoL
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Ceropegia sect. Tiloris H. Huber, Mem. Soc. Brot.
| S. S., Kambale & Abstract, S. R. Yadav 2019 |
Ceropegia sect. Tiloris H. Huber, Mem. Soc. Brot.
| Bruyns 2017: 429 |
| H. Huber 1957: 33 |