taxonID	type	description	language	source
0F5387A91605FFD8E8D3F913F446C448.taxon	materials_examined	Type: — SOUTH AFRICA. KwaZulu-Natal Province: Alexandra-County, kurz begraste Weiden bei Fairfield, alt. c. 700 m, December 1905, H. Rudatis 203 (Holotype: B, destroyed). Neotype: — SOUTH AFRICA. KwaZulu-Natal: District Alexandra, Station Dumisa, Farm Friedenau, Fairfield, alt. 700 m, 28 February 1908, H. Rudatis 500 (K 000305620; designated by Huber (1957: 135); isoneotypes: GH 00076275; BM 000645910). Perennial erect herb. Rootstock producing a cluster of fleshy fusiform roots up to 130 mm long and 4.5 – 6 mm thick; latex clear. Stems single, rarely two from rootstock, unbranched, annual, green, fleshy, glabrous, 300 – 500 mm tall, ca. 4 mm in diameter; internodes 20 – 40 mm long. Leaves ascending to suberect, shortly petiolate; petiole 1.5 – 2.6 mm long, glabrous; lamina ovate, 39.5 – 67.5 × 16.5 – 39.5 mm, flatly spread out, slightly fleshy, fairly stiff, base obtuse, apex acute to acumen, glabrous, blueish-green with thin purple margin, glaucous, with 4 – 5 lateral nerves. Inflorescences extra-axillary, sessile at youngest node, uniflorous, with single bract 2 – 4 mm long, lanceolate, acute; pedicel erect, 50 – 53 × 1.5 – 2.0 mm, green, fleshy, glabrous. Calyx lobes narrowly lanceolate, 8.5 – 18.5 × 0.9 – 1.1 mm, ascending, acute, pale green, glabrous, about at least 1 / 2 as long as corolla tube inflation (ostiolum). Flowers with musty-acidic petrollike scent, anthesis c. 3 - 4 days. Corolla upright or held at a ca. 45 ° angle from stem, slightly curved from basal inflation (ostiolum), 56.5 – 85.0 mm in total length; corolla tube 33 – 48 mm in total length, slightly longitudinally furrowed throughout with furrows being more prominent at mouth; outside glabrous, green merging into purple colouration above ostiolum, and again greenish at throat; inside glabrous smooth throughout; ostiolum whitish with longitudinal purple stripes, stripes thinner at transition to tube; tube dark purple merging into whitish with dark purple coloured reticulation towards throat; ostiolum cylindrical to ovoid, 11.5 – 21.5 × 5.0 – 6.0 mm; tube cylindrical, 15.5 – 24.0 mm long, centrally ca. 2.7 mm in diam.; apical section of tube (mouth) slightly funnel-shaped, 5 – 7 mm wide. Corolla lobes confluent with the tube, 28.0 – 43.0 mm in total length, corolla lobe bases short and narrowly strut-like, 2.0 – 3.5 mm long, leaving 1.5 – 2.0 mm wide oval openings between each other, greenish but dark purple at upper sections and with dark-purple recurved margins, corolla lobe tips subulate, 27.5 – 34.5 × 2.5 – 3.0 mm, flaccid-pendulous, folded backwards along midrib, exposed upper surface lush green and densely pilose throughout, basally with vibratile trichomes at margins, trichomes clavate, pendulous, 3 – 4 mm long, purplish. Gynostegium shortly stipitate, dark purple throughout and only basally incl. stipe whitish or whitish and dark purple speckled. Gynostegial corona 3 – 4 mm in diam., of staminal and interstaminal parts, interstaminal corona lobes joined to form a cup, lobes deeply bifid, lobules ca. 0.8 mm long, small triangular to falcate with the tips spreading, margins pilose with spreading translucent-white trichomes 0.5 – 1.0 mm long, staminal corona lobes erect, linear, 2.5 – 3.0 × ca. 0.4 mm, parallel to each other with only the tips slightly recurved, purple, sometimes with whitish tips, glabrous. Pollinarium: pollinia broadly ovoid, ca. 350 × 250 μm, yellow, with rounded insertion crest ca. 150 μm long; caudicles ca. 50 μm long; corpusculum obclavate, but distally oblate and centrally slightly compressed, ca. 205 × 100 μm, reddish brown. Ovaries narrowly conical, ca. 2.2 × 0.5 mm, glabrous. Follicles with two mericarps developed, erect, linear, slightly longitudinally furrowed, 180 – 210 mm long and 5 – 7 mm in diam., glabrous. Seeds linear-oblong, 12 × 5 – 6 mm, flattened, with broad margin, ca. 1.3 mm wide; coma 50 – 55 mm long, white.	en	Heiduk, Annemarie, Styles, David G. A., Meve, Ulrich (2021): Long-lost Ceropegia rudatisii (Apocynaceae-Asclepiadoideae) - Rediscovered and redescribed after 100 years. Phytotaxa 498 (2): 123-130, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.498.2.5, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.498.2.5
