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Ceropegia
Ceropegia is a genus of plants within the family Apocynaceae, native to Africa, southern Asia, and Australia. It was named by Carl Linnaeus, who first described this genus in his Genera plantarum, which appeared in 1737. Linnaeus referred to the description and picture of a plant in the Hortus Malabaricus as the plant for which the genus was created. In 1753 he named this species as Ceropegia candelabrum. Linnaeus did not explain the etymology but later explanations stated that the name Ceropegia was from the Greek word keropegion κηροπηγɩον. This means candelabrum in Latin, which has a broader range than the modern word - "a candlestick, a branched candlestick, a chandelier, candelabrum, or also lamp-stand, light-stand, sometimes of exquisite workmanship".
Apteranthes burchardii · Apteranthes europaea · Apteranthes tuberculata · Australluma peschii · Boucerosia frerei · Ceropegia schinziata · Brachystelma tumakurense · Caralluma adscendens · Caralluma crenulata · Apteranthes munbyana · Caudanthera edulis · Ceropegia ampliata
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