Ceropegia minuta (Ceropegia minuta)
Description
The Duvalia species are succulent,perennial plants with low,planar growth.The stems are clavate,cylindrical to spherical,in cross-section four-,five-or six-edged,and to about 10 inches long.They can range from green,gray to mottled reddish in color.The flowers are distinctive,and appear to grow from the base of the stems.Each has five thin,elongated lobes,radiating in a star shape from a central raised disk or annulus.The colour of most species flowers is shades of reddish brown,except for those of the rare Duvalia parviflora which are cream-coloured.The flower stems are long and bare.The hermaphroditic flowers measure 1-5 cm in diameter,and have five parts.The crown is yellow ocher,brown,red to dark purple.The five corolla lobes are flat or folded along the middle nerve.
Taxonomic tree
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Domain: Eukarya
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Kingdom: Plantae
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Class: Magnoliopsida
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Order: Gentianales
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Family: Apocynaceae
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Genus: Ceropegia
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