Ceropegia ciliata
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Ceropegia ciliata is a species of the subfamily of the silk plant family (Asclepiadoideae). It is based in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu .
description
Appearance and leaf
Ceropegia ciliata is a perennial herbaceous plant . Root tubers are formed as persistence organs , which are spherical with a diameter of 3 to 4 cm. The twisting shoot axes, which sprout again every year, are hairy. The leaves are sessile to short stalked. The leaf blades are linear-lanceolate and pointed.
Inflorescence, flower and fruit
The stalked inflorescence is multi-flowered. The inflorescence stem and pedicels are hairy.
The hermaphrodite flowers are zygomorphic and five-fold with a double flower envelope . The corolla is 2.5 to 3 cm long. In the lower part, the five petals are fused into a slim, around 18 mm long corolla tube ( sympetalie ). The corolla tube is inflated at the base to an egg-shaped, 7 to 9 mm long "coronet". The corolla tube widens only slightly towards the mouth of the flower. The petal lobes are 6 to 10 mm long and fused with the tips; they thus form a cage-like structure. The lamina of the corolla lobes are bent outwards along the longitudinal axis. The secondary crown is sessile and fused at the base. The hairy tips of the interstaminal outer corolla are triangular, either with entire margins or incised median . The tips of the staminal inner secondary crown are spatulate, are initially upright and then move apart, or only the tips are slightly bent back. While Robert Wight indicates June / July as the flowering time at the type locality, Ceropegia ciliata flowers according to Murthy et al. (2012) in August / September.
The spindle-shaped follicles are 8 cm long with a diameter of only 4 mm.
distribution
Ceropegia ciliata occurs in the Indian states of Kerala and Tamil Nadu .
Taxonomy
The first description of Ceropegia ciliata was in 1850 by Robert Wight in his work Icones plantarum Indiae orientalis .
Ceropegia ensifolia wasclassifiedas a subspecies of Ceropegia ciliata by Herbert Huber (1957) . In contrast to Ceropegia ciliata , Ceropegia ensifolia has tubers, which is why Ansari (1984) and Jagtap et al. 1999 to understand this taxon again as an independent species.
Use by humans
The Toda indigenous people in the Nilgiri Mountains of Tamil Nadu use the sap from the whole plant to treat fevers.
supporting documents
literature
- MY Ansari: Asclepiadaceae: Genus Ceropegia. In: Fascicles of Flora of India , Fascicle 16, 1984, pp. 1-34, Botanical Survey of India, Howrah (pp. 20, 22)
- Joseph Dalton Hooker (assisted by various botanists): The flora of British India. Volume 4. Asclepiadeae to Amarantaceae. London, Reeve & Co., 1885. Online at www.biodiversitylibrary.org (p. 72)
- Herbert H. Huber: Revision of the genus Ceropegia. In: Memórias da Sociedade Broteriana , Volume 12, 1957, pp. 1–203, Coimbra (pp. 68–69)
- AP Jagtap, N. Singh, N .: Asclepiadaceae and Periplocaceae. In: Fascicles of Flora of India , Fascicle 24, 1999, pp. 211-241, Botanical Survey of India, Kolkata (pp. 228-229).
- Ulrich Meve: Ceropegia. In: Focke Albers, Ulrich Meve (Hrsg.): Succulents Lexicon Volume 3 Asclepiadaceae (silk plants). Pp. 61–107, Eugen Ulmer Verlag, Stuttgart 2002. ISBN 3-8001-3982-0 (p. 70)
- K. Sri Rama Murthy, R. Kondamudi, M. Chandrasekhara Reddy, S. Karuppusamy, T. Pullaiah: Check-list and conservation strategies of the genus Ceropegia in India. International Journal of Biodiversity and Conservation, Volume 4, No. 8, 2012, pp. 304-315 doi : 10.5897 / IJBC12.011
- Robert Wight: Spicilegium Neilgherrense, or, a selection of Neilgherry plants: drawn and colored from nature, with brief descriptions of each; some general remarks on the geography and affinities of natural families of plants, and occasional notices of their economical properties and uses. Volume 2, 94 pp., Plates 103-202, Madras, self-published, 1851 online at www.biodiversitylibrary.org (p. 48, plate 154).
- Philip Furley Fyson: The flora of the Nilgiri and Pulney Hill-tops. Volume 3, 581 pp., Madras, Government Press, 1920. Online at www.biodiversitylibrary.org (p. 427)
Individual evidence
- ↑ ENVIS Center on Floral Diversity. Botanical Survey of India, Ministry of Environment and Forests, Government of India. Checklist of Plants Endemic to Kerala. PDF ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Robert Wight: Icones plantarum Indiae orientalis, or figures of Indian plants. Volume 4, pp. 1163–1621, Madras, Franck, 1850 Scanned at www.biodiversitylibrary.org (p. 15, plate 1262)
- ↑ Ulrich Meve: Ceropegia Checklist. A guide to alternative names used in recent Ceropegia classification. In: Dennis de Kock, Ulrich Meve: A Checklist of Brachystelma, Ceropegia and the genera of the Stapeliads. International Asclepiad Society 2007, pp. 83-113.
- ↑ S. Rajan, M. Jayendran, M. Sethuraman: Folk herbal practices among Toda tribe of the Nilgiri Hills in Tamil Nadu, India. In: Journal of Natural Remedies , Volume 5, No. 1, 2005, pp. 52–58 PDF ( Memento of the original from February 20, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
