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Publicado en: Plants of the Coast of Coromandel 1: 11, pl. 7. 1795. (May 1795) (Pl. Coromandel) Name publication detailView in BotanicusView in Biodiversity Heritage Library
 

Datos del Proyecto Nombre (Last Modified On 6/2/2011)
Aceptación : Accepted
Datos del Proyecto     (Last Modified On 6/3/2011)
Contributor Text: S.I. ALI
Flower/Fruit: Fl.Per.: July-August.
Type: Type: Coromandal, Roxb., Pl. Corom. 1:t.7.1795.
Distribución: Distribution: Pakistan (Punjab); India (Punjab, Uttar Pradesh, W. Peninsula).
Comment/Acknowledgements: The tubers and leaves are eaten. An alkaloid, ceropegine, is present in tubers which makes them bitter, somewhat like raw turnips.
Illustration: Ceropegia bulbosa Roxb. (Illustration)
Map Location: C-7 Jhelum Dist., Lehri, 15.7.1956, M.A. Kiani (RAW); D-6 Multan, Edgeworth 6036 (K); D-8 S. of Lahore, August 1846, T. Thomson (K).

 

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Tuber globose. Stem trailing or twining, usually glabrous. Leaves orbicular, ovate, lanceolate to linear, 3-6 cm long, slightly cordate, fleshy, glabrous, subsessile to petiolate. Cymes pedunculate, 3-5 flowered arising between the petioles, peduncle 1.2-2.6 cm long. Pedicels 3-7 mm long. Sepals 2-2.5 mm long, lanceolate, acute. Corolla 1.2-2.5 cm long, whitish green, purple striate, lobes deep purple, 44.5 mm long, narrow, pilose. Outer corona lobes rounded to shortly acute, inner lobes linear, c. 2 mm long. Follicles 10 x 0.4-0.5 cm, taper towards apex, glabrous. Seeds 8-9 mm long, flattened, ovate-oblong, margin broad, membranous, coma 2.5-3.8 cm long.
 
 
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