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| syn. Ceropegia bothrys [wrong], Ceropegia botrys (K. Schum.), Ceropegia mansomriana, Ceropegia mansouriana (Chaudhary & Lavranos), Ceropegia nuda (Hutchinson & E. A. Bruce) |
| distribution:
Ethiopia Saudi Arabia Somalia Yemen: Hadhramaut Province |
| This is a fast
growing species with greyish green stems, the leaves are reduced to small
lancett-shaped rudiments. The flowers are quite large, the petals are united most of the time, but can also be straddled sometimes. One of the former species now included in this species ist the arabian Ceropegia botrys, the flowers are large, white to very light rosy and show ruby-coloured to reddish brown spots on their flower-tube. The petals are converted to pocket-like structures and coloured whitish. At the top thei are very dark purple, united and elongated to a reddish brown antennae-like strukture as the one known from Ceropegia haygarthii. |
 left:Ceropegia subaphylla (syn. Ceropegia botrys) Photo: by courtesy of Friedericke Hübner & Ulrich Tränkle Asclepidarium Rauher Burren 9 89143 Blaubeuren www.asclepidarium.de |
| References: - Norbert Kilian; Peter Hein; Mohamed Ali Hubaishan: New and noteworthy records for the flora of Yemen, chiefly of Hadhramout and Al-Mahra. Willdenowia 32: 239-268. 2002 |