Ceropegia elegans

Ceropegia elegans is a plant species that belongs to the genus Ceropegia. It is endemic to India and Sri Lanka.[4][5]

Ceropegia elegans
At Peravoor
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Gentianales
Family: Apocynaceae
Genus: Ceropegia
Species:
C. elegans
Binomial name
Ceropegia elegans
Subspecies
  • Ceropegia elegans var. elegans
  • Ceropegia elegans var. gardneri (Hook.) Huber[2] (syn. Ceropegia gardneri (Hook.))
  • Ceropegia elegans var. sandersonii
  • Ceropegia elegans var. walkerae (Wight) Trimen, 1895[3]
Synonyms
  • Ceropegia myosorensis (Wight)
  • Ceropegia walkeriae (Wight)

References
  1. Wall. Bot. Mag. t. 3015 1830
  2. H. Huber Mem. Soc. Brot. 12: 73 1957
  3. Trimen Handb. Fl. Ceylon 3: 165 1895
  4. Ceropegia elegans on www.ceropegia.minks-lang.de Archived April 25, 2012, at the Wayback Machine
  5. Ceropegia elegans on data.gbif.org Archived September 29, 2015, at the Wayback Machine


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