Ceropegia sect. Phalaena H. Huber, Mem. Soc. Brot.
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Ceropegia sect. Phalaena H. Huber, Mem. Soc. Brot. 12: 30. 1957; Bruyns, S. African J. Bot. 112: 411. 2017. Type: Ceropegia aristolochioides Decne.
Climbing perennial herbs. Rootstock a small tuber with fibrous roots. Stem succulent, glabrous. Leaves fleshy, subulate to lanceolate, reduced to scale, sessile, caducous, glabrous. Cymes 2–5(–10)-flowered. Corona bi-seriate.
Distribution: Twenty four species in the Africa, southern Arabian Peninsula (including Socotra), southern India and Sri Lanka. Only one species i.e. C. juncea Roxb. , is found in India. ( Table 1).
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Ceropegia sect. Phalaena H. Huber, Mem. Soc. Brot.
| S. S., Kambale & Abstract, S. R. Yadav 2019 |
Ceropegia sect. Phalaena H. Huber, Mem. Soc. Brot.
| Bruyns 2017: 411 |
| H. Huber 1957: 30 |