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| syn. Ceropegia hirsuta var. vincaefolia ((Hook.) Hook. f.), Ceropegia oculata var. subhirsuta ((Blatt. & McCann) H. Huber), Ceropegia polyantha (Blatt. & McCann), Ceropegia stocksii (Hook. f.), Ceropegia vincifolia [wrong] |
| distribution:
India: Kerala; Nandurbar District / Maharasthra |
| This fast
growing, twining species is a member of the not succulent representatives
of its genus. The leaves are quite large and heart-shaped. The flowers are similar to those of Ceropegia juncea, they stand in groups in an umbel, which arises from a conspicuously pinkish, hairy stalk. They are quite large, the flower-tube is of a plain light colour in the lower part, spotted purple in the upper part. The united petals are greenish in the lower half, heavily purple in the upper half. Unfortunately this species is threatened with extinction. The people from the Pawara resp. Pawra tribe, which lives in the Nandurbar District of the state of Maharashtra, know the species under the name Khottya (Pawiri or Pawri) and consume its tubers as vegetable. In Kerala this plant is called Palancheera. |
 left:Ceropegia vincaefolia Photo: Yuwaraj Gurjar; by courtesy of Yuwaraj Gurjar http://www.yuwarajgurjar.com http://www.indianaturewatch.net/view_cat.php?tag=Yuwaraj%20Gurjar |
 left:Ceropegia vincaefolia Photo: Yuwaraj Gurjar; by courtesy of Yuwaraj Gurjar http://www.yuwarajgurjar.com http://www.indianaturewatch.net/view_cat.php?tag=Yuwaraj%20Gurjar |
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| References: - M. Y. Ansari: Ceropegia vincaefolia Hook. (Asclepiadaceae) from Maharashtra, India: its history and identity. Bull. Bot. Surv. India, 13(3-4). 1971 - M. K. Ratheesh Narayanan; M. P. Swapna; N. Anil Kumar: Gender Dimensions of Wild Food Management in Wayanad, Kerala. M.S.Swaminanthan Research Foundation, MSSRF/RR/04/12 (2004) - S. D. Jagtap; S. S. Deokule; S. V. Bhosle: Ethnobotanical uses of endemic and RET plants by Pawra tribe of Nandurbar district, Maharashtra. Indian Journal of Traditional Knowlegde Vol. 7 (2), April 2008, pp. 311-315 |