Ceropegia dorjei (C. E. C. Fisch.)
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| distribution:
Bhutan: Trashigang District / Eastern Zone; Trongsa District / Southern Zone |
| This species is
a smaller, slender climbing plant, whose stems may reach a length of about
1,5 m. The leaves are elliptic to broadly ovate in shape, 2 to 5,5 cm lang and 1,2 to 3,5 cm wide. Their upper surface is slightly hirsute as are mainly the vains on the leaves under surface. They have 0,4 to 2 cm long, slightly haired petioles. The flowers are large and distinctly shaped, they appear in one to four-flowered cymes. The barrel shaped, light yellow coloured flower tube is about 2 to 2,5 cm long as well as up to 1,5 cm wide in the middle and abruptly narrowed at mouth. The corolla lobes are about 1 to 1,5 cm long, united at their tips and of a dark purple colour. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ In its native range Ceropegia dorjei grows in 2100 to 2300 m altitude in thermophile mountain valleys. |
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