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Ceropegia striata is a plant species endemic to Madagascar. It is known only from the Vavavato Massif in the central highlands, at an elevation of approximately 1800 m.
Ceropegia striata is a geophytic plant with a large tuberous base. Stems are thin, green, hairless, less than 3 mm in diameter, twining over other vegetation. Leaves are narrowly elliptic, up to 3 cm long. Flowers usually solitary. Corolla up to 35 mm long, the lower third forming a hollow sphere about 7 mm in diameter, narrowing into a conical upper corolla, whitish green with purple stripes, with a corona on top.
Apteranthes burchardii · Apteranthes europaea · Apteranthes tuberculata · Australluma peschii · Boucerosia frerei · Ceropegia schinziata · Brachystelma tumakurense · Caralluma adscendens · Caralluma crenulata · Apteranthes munbyana · Caudanthera edulis · Ceropegia ampliata
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Ceropegia striata by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
