Ceropegia rudatisii   (Schltr.)


 
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distribution:

South-Africa: Kwa Zulu-Natal

 
This species is known from only one population in a gorge of the Mhlathuzana river. The habitat is threatened by banana- and sugarcane-plantations, and this species may now already be extinct.

 
References:

- Mary Gunn; Leslie Edward Wostall Codd: Botanical exploration of Southern Africa: an illustrated history of early botanical literature on the Cape flora: biographical accounts of the leading plant collectors and their activities in Southern Africa from the days of the East India Company until modern times. CRC Press, 1981