Ceropegia mohanramii - Green-Flask Ceropegia

Green-Flask Ceropegia is a recently (2006) discovered species of Ceropegia. It is a perennial erect herb, stem about 24 cm long, usually unbranched, round, 4-7 mm in diameter. Flowers are flask-shaped, tube 3.2-3.5 cm long, green throughout, with slight yellow tinge, hairless, about half or 2/3rd part of flower dilated. Sepals are 3-3.5 x 0.1-0.15 mm, hairy along midnerve up to middle of lobe, linear-needle-like. Petals are linear-oblong (at base), 0.8-1 cm long, finely velvet-hairy along margins and inside, reflexed at base, fused at tip forming a flask-shaped cage. Leaves are stalkless to nearly so; blade 1.8-5.5 x 0.3-0.6 cm (lower ones small, middle large and end ones small), linear-lanceshaped, occasionally sickle shaped, midrib finely velvet-hairy beneath, channeled above, hairless beneath, except for midrib, fringed with hairs along margins. Green-Flask Ceropegia is endemic to Maharashtra. Flowering: July-December.