Ceropegia sootepensis (Craib)
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| distribution:
Thailand: Mount Doi Suthep / Chiang Mai Province; Nakhon Ratchasima Province |
| Ceropegia
sootepensis grows in the dry dipterocap forests and occurs into the
alpine oak/dipterocarp forest. The typus locality is the open, deciduous
forest at the Mount Doi Suthep (formerly Mount Doi Sootep), after which
the species is named, in an elevation of 450 m above sea level. It belongs to the species with an subterranean storage tuber. The stem grows twining and reaches a length of about 1 m. The leaves are narrowly lancet-shaped, reach a length of 5 to 18 cm and are glabrous. The flowers appear in one to three-flowered cymes. They have a highly swollen base, this is white and decorated with some light red stripes. The flower-tube is conspicuously seperated from the base, also white and blazoned with tiniest light red tittles. The united petals are orange to brick-red in the upper half. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ In the Nakhon Ratchasima Province it is known by the name of Wan sam phi nong bekannt, while in the Chiang Mai Province it is called Ma khuea chae din or Mamui doi. |
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