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Botanical Name Plant's Common Name Plant Family

MC049 : Ceropegia hirsuta Wight & Arn.

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Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : -  
Class : Magnoliopsida - Dicotyledons
Order : Gentianales
Family : Asclepiadaceae - Milkweed family
Genus : Ceropegia
Species : Ceropegia hirsuta Wight & Arn.
Plant Location in Melghat : Umarkhed Forest  
Plant Category : Climbers  
Plant's Current Status : -  
Plant Family : Asclepiadaceae  
 
Plant Common Name : Hamana;
 
Synonym : Ceropegia hirsuta var. jacquemontiana (Decne.) Hook.f.
Ceropegia hirsuta var. ophiocephala (Dalzell) Hook.f.
Ceropegia hirsuta var. stenophylla Hook.f.
Ceropegia hispida Blatt. & McCann
Ceropegia jacquemontiana Decne.
Ceropegia ophiocephala Dalzell
Description : Trailing herbs. Flowers yellowish green with brown spots on the tube. Hairy Ceropegia is an upright or climbing plant with a subterranean tuber. The 6.5 cm long and 3 cm broad, elliptic to ovate leaves are covered with hair on both sides. Leaf stalk is about 2 cm long, hairy. The 5 cm long flowers of this species are very showy, the lower part is slightly swollen. The flower-tube is light beige coloured and mottled olive-brown or purple upwards. The petals are very broad and yellowish or apple-green coloured. In India the tubers of Hairy Ceropegia are eaten as a vegetable. Flowering: August-September.
 
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Reference : ~ Londhe AN, Watve AV and Ansari MY; "Additions to the flora of Melghat Tiger Reserve"; J. Econ. Taxon. Bot. (2002); 26(2): 385-395 PMID :