Botanical name: Ceropegia schumanniana    Family: Apocynaceae (Oleander family)

Tamilnadu Purple Ceropegia is a perennial trailing to twining hairless herbs. Flowers are 1.2-1.5 cm long; tube 0.8-1 cm long, curved, dilated at base, nearly cylindrical-funnel-shaped at throat, hairless except for ring of hairs at the throat, deep purple within; lobes 3-4 mm long, elongate-ovate, completely folded on their back, fused at tip forming ovoid cage, hairy along margins. Sepals are 4-4.5 mm long, sharp-tipped, hairless. Flowers are borne in 5-7-flowered cymes in leaf-axils, carried on flower-cluster-stalks 4-7 mm long, hairless. Bracts and bracteoles are linear, hairless; flower-stalks 6-7 mm long, hairless. Leaves are 4-4.5 x 1.5-2 cm, ovate-lanceshaped, tapering at tip, narrow at base, hairless, deep green with few purple spots above, pale beneath; leaf-stalks 0.8-1.6 cm long, channeled above, ciliolate along margins, hairless otherwise. Tamilnadu Purple Ceropegia is only known from Tamil Nadu. It has never been collected after the original collection. This is probably only the second time it has been recorded. Flowering: December.

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