| Spotted Ceropegia |
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| Original date | 11/11/17 10:51 AM |
| Resolution | 2048 x 1536 |
| Flash | Flash fired |
| Focal length | 250.0mm |
| Exposure time | 1/50s |
| Aperture | 5.6 |
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| Camera make | Canon |
| Camera model | Canon EOS 600D |
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Botanical name: Ceropegia maculata Family: Apocynaceae (Oleander family)
Synonyms: Ceropegia schumanniana
Synonyms: Ceropegia schumanniana
Spotted Ceropegia is a slender hairless herb with
leaves up to 8.5 x 5.5 cm, ovate, pointed or tapering, base blunt or
rounded, membranous; nerves 3 pairs; leaf-stalk to 2.5 cm long.
Flower-cluster-stalks are shorter than the leaf-stalks. Flowers are few
to many, arranged in umbels. Flower-stalks are 1 cm long; sepals 3 mm
long, linear. Flowers are up to 1.8 cm long, base slightly inflated,
greenish-violet on lower 2/3, white above, thinly hairy in a ring
inside, petals 4 mm long, ovate, bluish-green, sparsely hairy; outer
corona of 5 lobes, each deeply divided, hairy at base; inner corona
linear as long as or slightly longer than the outer. Spotted Ceropegia
is endemic to Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Sri Lanka. Flowering:
September-November.
| Identification credit: S. Jeevith | Photographed in Theppakulam, Thenmala RF, Kerala. |
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