Ceropegia paniculata (Willd.) Bruyns subsp. kougabergensis (L.C.Leach) Bruyns
Indigenous Endemic

Morphological description

Corolla inside with few ± erect hairs to ± glabrous; lobes ± as broad as long. From: Bruyns, PV. 2005. Stapeliads of southern Africa and Madagascar, Vol. 2. Umdaus Press, Hatfield. [All rights reserved] As: Stapelia paniculata Willd. subsp. kougabergensis (L.C.Leach) Bruyns

Perennial succulent; stems erect, 200 x 12 mm, pubescent, grey-green, 4-angled, not prominently tuberculate. Flowers 1-8; pedicels up to 20 mm long. Sepals up to 5 mm long. Corolla rotate, 16-30 mm in diam., glabrous to slightly pubescent, transversely rugulose, red to purple usually with irregular transverse yellowish lines; lobes as wide as long, spreading to recurved. Corona 4.5-7.0 mm in diam., dark red to blackish, variable; outer lobes ascending, rectangular, ± 1.5 mm long; inner lobes ± 2.5 mm long, keeled, appressed to anthers at base, erect to connivent-erect above with recurved apices. From: Nicholas, A; Glen, M; Shuttleworth, A; Bester, SP. 2019. Apocynaceae. In: CL Bredenkamp (ed.), A Flora of the Eastern Cape Province. Strelitzia 41(1): 321-417. South African National Biodiversity Institute, Pretoria. [CC BY] As: Stapelia kougabergensis L.C.Leach

Diagnostic description

At the western end of the Baviaanskloof, the stems of subsp. kougabergensis are short and slender and rather like those of subsp. scitula. However, in most other places they are rather thicker (8 -12 mm) and may be up to 80 mm or more tall. They are always quite obviously pubescent, unlike those in some forms of S. hirsuta which occur in the same general area, where they are nearly glabrous. The flowers are mostly quite small and are usually borne near the bases of the stems. Inside, the background colour may be anything from dark purple to brick-red and dull to shiny. Towards the bases of the lobes and below them there are usually a few irregular, transverse pale yellow bars, but these may even be dense, in which case the flower looks like a small version of that of S. villetiae. Some of the more boldly coloured ones emit a slight unpleasant odour. Generally the inside of the flower is more or less devoid of hairs but in some specimens it is quite clearly hairy and these are very similar to flowers found in subsp. scitula. The corona lobes are extremely variable, as is usual in Stapelia, and while the inner lobes normally rise beyond the end of the anthers, they sometimes meet in the centre and form a column. In material from the Baviaanskloof the inner corona lobes are dorsally keeled but have almost no dorsal horn. Those from the western end of the Suurberg, on the other hand, have quite significant, laterally flattened dorsal horns, often nearly as long as the lobes themselves. These plants also have less obviously pubescent stems than is usual for S. paniculata, but the very small flowers suggest that this is where they belong. From: Bruyns, PV. 2005. Stapeliads of southern Africa and Madagascar, Vol. 2. Umdaus Press, Hatfield. [All rights reserved] As: Stapelia paniculata Willd. subsp. kougabergensis (L.C.Leach) Bruyns

Treated as S. paniculata subsp. kougabergensis in Bruyns (2005b. From: Nicholas, A; Glen, M; Shuttleworth, A; Bester, SP. 2019. Apocynaceae. In: CL Bredenkamp (ed.), A Flora of the Eastern Cape Province. Strelitzia 41(1): 321-417. South African National Biodiversity Institute, Pretoria. [CC BY] As: Stapelia kougabergensis L.C.Leach

Habitat

Plants of subsp. kougabergensis are always found on soils derived from sandstones. They grow in shallow soils on outcrops of rock, mostly in the open and only rarely sheltered by small bushes. Some records from the Baviaanskloof are from an altitude of nearly 950 m, which is unusually high for a stapeliad in this region. From: Bruyns, PV. 2005. Stapeliads of southern Africa and Madagascar, Vol. 2. Umdaus Press, Hatfield. [All rights reserved] As: Stapelia paniculata Willd. subsp. kougabergensis (L.C.Leach) Bruyns

Sandstone soils, sometimes amongst small bushes, alt. 500-900 m. Lower Karoo, Rainshadow Valley Karoo, Eastern Fynbos-Renosterveld. From: Nicholas, A; Glen, M; Shuttleworth, A; Bester, SP. 2019. Apocynaceae. In: CL Bredenkamp (ed.), A Flora of the Eastern Cape Province. Strelitzia 41(1): 321-417. South African National Biodiversity Institute, Pretoria. [CC BY] As: Stapelia kougabergensis L.C.Leach

Distribution

Subsp. kougabergensis is known in a few places in the western part of the Long Kloof around Saptou, in the western part of the Baviaanskloof, in the mountains south of Steytlerville and also at the western end of the Suurberg. Although it has not been found growing socially with S. hirsuta or S. grandiflora, these species often occur nearby. From: Bruyns, PV. 2005. Stapeliads of southern Africa and Madagascar, Vol. 2. Umdaus Press, Hatfield. [All rights reserved] As: Stapelia paniculata Willd. subsp. kougabergensis (L.C.Leach) Bruyns

Willowmore to Steytlerville S to the Baviaanskloof with an isolated population in the Suurberg. From: Nicholas, A; Glen, M; Shuttleworth, A; Bester, SP. 2019. Apocynaceae. In: CL Bredenkamp (ed.), A Flora of the Eastern Cape Province. Strelitzia 41(1): 321-417. South African National Biodiversity Institute, Pretoria. [CC BY] As: Stapelia kougabergensis L.C.Leach

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Residence status

Occurrence in the Flora of Southern Africa (FSA) countries and South African provinces. Residence status indicates if a taxon is indigenous, endemic, naturalised or invasive in a specific region. This data is based on specimen records and literature

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Names and Sources

Accepted name
Ceropegia paniculata (Willd.) Bruyns subsp. kougabergensis (L.C.Leach) Bruyns

Published in: S. African J. Bot. 112: 422 (2017)

Synonym(s)

Stapelia kougabergensis L.C.Leach

Published in: S. African J. Bot. 3(3): 176 (1984)


Gonostemon kougabergensis (L.C.Leach) P.V.Heath

Published in: Calyx 1(1): 19 (1992)


Stapelia paniculata Willd. subsp. kougabergensis (L.C.Leach) Bruyns

Published in: Stapeliads S. Africa Madagascar 2: 447 (2005)


Classification

KINGDOM Plantae

SUBKINGDOM Phanerogamae

SPECIES paniculata

SUBSPECIES kougabergensis

14 results for Ceropegia paniculata (Willd.) Bruyns subsp. kougabergensis (L.C.Leach) Bruyns

Specimen records

Barcode: NBG1496032-1 Collector(s) & number: Bruyns, PV, 1611 | 19--

South Africa, Eastern Cape, Willowmore. Nuwekloof.

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Barcode: NBG1496033-2 Collector(s) & number: Latti, S, s.n. | 19--

South Africa, Eastern Cape, Willowmore. Kouga mountains.

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Barcode: NBG1496030-0 Collector(s) & number: Rossouw, GJ, 132 | 19--

South Africa, Eastern Cape, Willowmore. Nuwekloof.

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Barcode: NBG1496033-1 Collector(s) & number: Latti, S, s.n. | 19--

South Africa, Eastern Cape, Willowmore. Kouga mountains.

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Barcode: NBG1496032-2 Collector(s) & number: Bruyns, PV, 1611 | 19--

South Africa, Eastern Cape, Willowmore. Nuwekloof.

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Barcode: NBG1496028-0 Collector(s) & number: Van Jaarsveld, EJ, 2606 | 19--

South Africa, Eastern Cape, Willowmore. Ex Damsedrif.

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Barcode: NBG1496029-0 Collector(s) & number: Branch, WR, WRB 360 | 19--

South Africa, Eastern Cape, Steytlerville. North-east facing but heavily vegetated cliff face, bordering Witrivier, ± 2 km West of farm Kleinplaas. Eastern entrance to Baviaanskloof Pass. (Site D on Xerox).

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Barcode: NBG1496031-2 Collector(s) & number: Bruyns, P, 1891 | 19--

South Africa, Eastern Cape, Steytlerville. Kounek.

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Barcode: NBG1496031-1 Collector(s) & number: Bruyns, P, 1891 | 19--

South Africa, Eastern Cape, Steytlerville. Kounek south-east of Studtis.

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Barcode: PRE0655578-0 Collector(s) & number: Rossouw, G, 132 | --

South Africa, Western Cape, WILLOWMORE; 32 KM S.OF WILLOWMORE

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Barcode: PRE0669175-0 Collector(s) & number: Branch, WR, WBR 360 | 1984-1-14

South Africa, Eastern Cape, STEITLERVILLE DIST.; BAVIAANSKLOOF PASS.; C 2 KM W OF FARM KLEINPLAAS. NE FACING CLIFF FACE BORDERING WITRIVIER. E TO PAS

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Barcode: PRE0652302-0 Collector(s) & number: Leach, LC, 15659 | --

South Africa, Cape Province, BO-KOUGA; ON NORTH FACING SLOPES

General notes: On false fynbos, on sandstone with some quartzite. Plants forming clumps under bushes Cult. & flowering at SRGH, 1980

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Barcode: PRE0652120-0 Collector(s) & number: Bayliss, RDA, 5984 | 1973-12-

South Africa, Cape Province, BO-KOUGA

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Barcode: NBG0132170-0 Collector(s) & number: Leach, LC, 15659 | --

South Africa, Eastern Cape, Willowmore.

General notes: Cult. and fl. at SRGH, 1980.

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2019

SERIES CHAPTER

Apocynaceae Nicholas, A; Glen, M; Shuttleworth, A; Bester, SP

In: CL Bredenkamp (ed.), A Flora of the Eastern Cape Province. Strelitzia 41(1)321-417

South African National Biodiversity Institute, Pretoria

2017

PERIODICAL/JOURNAL

A revised, phylogenetically-based concept of Ceropegia (Apocynaceae) Bruyns, PV; Klak, C; Hanacek, P

South African Journal of Botany 112: 399-436

2012

SERIES CHAPTER

Apocynaceae Bruyns, PV

In: J Manning & P Goldblatt (eds), Plants of the Greater Cape Floristic Region 1: The Core Cape flora. Strelitzia 29: 331-343

South African National Biodiversity Institute, Pretoria

2005

BOOK

Stapeliads of southern Africa and Madagascar, Vol. 2 Bruyns, PV

Umdaus Press, Hatfield

1997

BOOK

List of southern African succulent plants Smith, GF

Umdaus Press, Pretoria

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