Ceropegy ( lat. Ceropegia ) - a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Kutrovye ( Apocynaceae ). In nature, common in tropical regions of Africa and Asia.
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Ceropegia candelabrum L., 1753 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
The scientific name of the genus is derived from the ancient-Greek. κηροπήγιος - “candelabrum”, which refers to the unusual form of flowers of plants.
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Botanical description
Erect or lazy perennial herbaceous plants, usually with clear juice, often with succulent stems or leaves. Sometimes form spindle rhizome or tuber.
Flowers in axillary umbellate or racemose inflorescences , five-membered, large. Calyx at the base of the lobes with glands. The corolla is tubular, with a double crown: the outer lobes are often bilobed, the inner lobes are filiform to spatulate. Stamens fused into the tube.
Fruits - leaflets linear, cylindrical or spindle-shaped.
Value
Many species of the genus are decorative and are grown as indoor plants.
Types
According to the information of The Plant List , the genus includes 217 species [2] . Some of them:
- Ceropegia africana R.Br. , 1822 - African Tseropegiya
- Ceropegia ampliata E.Mey. , 1838 - Tseropegiya extended
- Ceropegia bulbosa Roxb. , 1795 - Tseropegiya bulbous , or bulbous tseropegiya
- Ceropegia dichotoma haw. , 1812 - Tseropegiya fork
- Ceropegia elegans Wall. , 1830 - Tseropegiya elegant
- Ceropegia fusca Bolle , 1861 - Tseropegiya brown
- Ceropegia haygarthii Schltr. , 1905 - Highgart's tseropegiya
- Ceropegia linearis E.Mey., 1838 - Tseropegiya spear-shaped
- Ceropegia radicans Schltr., 1894 - Tseropegiya rooting
- Ceropegia sandersonii Decne. ex Hook.f. , 1869 - Sanderson's Tseropegiya
- Ceropegia stapeliiformis Haw., 1827 - Tseropegiya stapeliform
- Ceropegia woodii Schltr., 1894 - Tseropegiya Wood
Notes
- ↑ About the conditionality of specifying the class of dicotyledons as a higher taxon for the group of plants described in this article, see the section “APG Systems” of the article “Dicotyledons” .
- ↑ Ceropegia (English) . The Plant List . Version 1.1. (2013). The appeal date is August 7, 2016.
Literature
- BT Li, MG Gilbert, WD Stevens. 44. Ceropegia Linnaeus // Flora of China . - Vol. 16. - P. 266.
- Tseropegiya // Encyclopedic Dictionary of Brockhaus and Efron : 86 t. (82 t. And 4 additional.). - SPb. , 1890-1907.