Ceropegia vincifolia

Great Artistic snap

ceropegia variation:
I have seen variation in this two specimen of Ceropegia vincifolia Hook. first two image 46 & 49 are are of same plant found on hill top & next two image 6655 & 6649 are the same plant but found near creek (Nagala block) , is this variation due to habitat change ??

Ceropegia vincifolia.:
Sharing few snaps of a Ceropegia climber spotted at Kanheri caves, Mumbai.
Bot. name: Ceropegia vincifolia.
Date/Time: 21-07-2012/ 10:00AM

Flora Picture of the year- 2011- Rajesh Sachdev:
Name of the Species: Ceropegia vincaefoliaCommon Name: Forest Flytrap (English), Kharchudi Kandil (Marathi)Photographed on: 7th August, 2011 Location : Jummapatti, Matheran-Neral Route, Maharashtra. Habitat: Hill slope, open forest. Description: Termed as endemic (Western Ghats) and rare/threatened plant of the region, we (… & me) were not expecting to see it in Matheran. Matheran although resembles most of Sahyadri (Western Ghats)
but is not literally connected to the main ridge and perhaps that is the reason that we were not actually expecting this at the said location. This record has inspired me, by and large, to prepare the check-list of flora of this hill station. The documentation, field work, is likely to start soon and would go on for couple of years.

close up its eyecatching, otherwise one could easily walk past it…

KAS Week:DS_011012_02 Ceropegia vincifolia:
This is another interesting plant I came across – not insectivorous but have a peculiar behaviour, I heard. The trapped inside the flower are not consumed but after pollens are transferred on the body of the insect sufficient for pollination, the petals open and release the insect.
On 22nd sept,2012

Yes Ceropegia vincaefolia indeed. Apocynaceae.
The leaves in the vicinity are not of the climber/ They belong to probably ‘Toran’ Ziziphus rugosa.

Ceropegia vincaefolia:
Ceropegia vincaefolia

Oh, what a bunch ! Superb.

Very nice and crisp. The flowers here appear to be shorter and stouter than those found on Sinhgad. The cyme is also bigger.

kaas plateau

By the way correct spellings should be vincifolia

Not a big issue … You will find most books using “ae'” as spellings. It is only recently that Botanical Code has directed that whenever “ae” appears in spellings of specific epithet, it should be changed to “i”.

Kas week : Ceropegia vincaefolia SMP:
Ceropegia vincaefolia

Kaas Week : Ceropegia vincaefolia:
August, 2011

Ceropegia vincaefolia.
Kalwa. Near Thane. Maharashtra.
4-7-2013

Extraordinary capture …

Ceropegia vincifolia : 19072013 : RV 2 :  Attachments (3). 2 posts by 2 authors.
Would like to share the pictures of Ceropegia vincifolia which we saw 2 days back (17.7.13) in an area of Borivali National Park, Mumbai.

Very nice pictures. Thanks for sharing your observations.

Nice observation…Good to see flowering and fruiting in same post….Liked the first photograph..

Satara, Oct 2014 :: Requesting ID validation :: ARKOCT-28 : 3 posts by 2 authors. Attachments (3)
Requesting to please validate ID of this Ceropegia captured near Satara, Maharashtra in October 2014.
Is this Ceropegia vincifolia? 

You are right. I’d like to know the name of the plant on which it is climbing, please do inform if possible.

Thank you … for the validation…
As far as I can remember, it was Memcylon umbellatum, I think…the leaves had a very file yellow/golden margin, visible only if you looked closely.

Ceropegia

Ceropegia vincifolia from …

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Names of Plants in India :: Ceropegia vincifolia:  Ceropegia vincifolia Hook.
[image: Ceropegia vincifolia Hook.]<http://www.flickr.com/photos/dinesh_valke/6155453255/>

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[image: Discussions at efloraofindia]<https://groups.google.com/indiantreepix/Cero…>
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seer-oh-PEEJ-ee-uh — from the Greek keros (wax) and pege (fountain)
¿ vin-key-FOH-lee-uh ? — having leaves like that of Vinca

commonly known as: vinca-leaved ceropegia<https://sites.google.com/site/indiannamesofplants/via-names/english/v…>•
Marathi: कंदिल खरचुडी kandil kharchudi<https://sites.google.com/site/indiannamesofplants/via-names/marathi/k…>
botanical names: Ceropegia vincifolia Hook. … *Ceropegia vincaefolia*[archaic spelling / spelling variant] … *synonyms*: *Ceropegia hirsuta* var. *vincaefolia* (Hook.) Hook. f. • *Ceropegia oculata* var. *subhirsuta* H.Huber • *Ceropegia polyantha* Blatt. & McCann • *Ceropegia stocksii* Hook.f.

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… got a query about this species’ epithet: … vincifolia OR vincaefolia  (the latter is old English spelling)
Need to know which of them OR are both of them accepted spellings.

While The Plants List <http://www.theplantlist.org/tpl/record/kew-2713207>has Ceropegia vincifolia Hook. as the accepted name, there is a synonym Ceropegia hirsuta var. vincaefolia (Hook.) Hook. f.

At another site, dedicated solely to Ceropegia … The Ceropegia
Lexicon <http://www.ceropegia.minks-lang.de/c.vincaefoli…> treats Ceropegia vincifolia as wrong.

Would like to know your thoughts.

This article from ICBN, should provide the answer
60.8. The use of a compounding form contrary to Rec. 60G in an adjectival epithet is treated as an error to be corrected. Ex. 17. Candolle’s Pereskia “opuntiaeflora” is to be cited as P. opuntiiflora DC. (1828), and Myrosma “cannaefolia” of the younger Linnaeus, as M. cannifolia L. f. (1782).
Ex. 18. Cacalia “napeaefolia” and Senecio “napeaefolius” are to be cited as Cacalia napaeifolia DC. (1838) and Senecio napaeifolius (DC.) Sch. Bip. (1845), respectively; the specific epithet refers to the resemblance of the leaves to those of the genus Napaea L. (not “Napea“), and the substitute (connecting) vowel -i should have been used instead of the genitive singular inflection -ae.
Ex. 19. However, in *Andromeda polifolia* L. (1753), the epithet is a pre-Linnaean plant name (“Polifolia” of Buxbaum) used in apposition and not an adjective; it is not to be altered to “poliifolia” (Polium -leaved). http://ibot.sav.sk/icbn/frameset/Sec1a60.htm

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