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Narrow-Cage Ceropegia
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Narrow-Cage Ceropegia
ative Photo: Dinesh Valke
Common name: Narrow-Cage Ceropegia • Marathi: Ghayal, अनंती खरपुडी Ananti kharpudi
Botanical name: Ceropegia anantii    Family: Apocynaceae (Oleander family)

Narrow-Cage Ceropegia is a rare herb known only from several hills around Phonda and Salva in the Konkan region. The leaves are relatively narrow lanceshaped, light green in color, 5-8 cm long. The flowers are quite large, 4-6.5 cm long, straight, greenish-yellow; flower tube 1-2.5 cm long, abruptly dilated at the base, hairless, greenish outside. They appear on a pinkish stalk and are more or less completely yellowish green. The petals make up the half of the flowers length, they sometimes show two dark dots on the inside. Sepals are linear, hairy, about 8 mm long. The flowers are quite similar to those of Tender Ceropegia, but the cage is swollen in Tender Ceropegia, and narrow, straight in Narrow-Cage Ceropegia. Flowering: August.

Identification credit: Shrikant Ingalhalikar Photographed at Phonda, Maharashtra.

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