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Ceropegia

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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 Horti Malabarici 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

Ceropegia woodii

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Ceropegia sandersonii

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Ceropegia fusca

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Ceropegia candelabrum

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Ceropegia elegans

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Ceropegia dichotoma

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Ceropegia linearis

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Ceropegia stapeliiformis

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Ceropegia ampliata

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Ceropegia radicans

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Ceropegia rhynchantha

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Ceropegia pusilla

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Ceropegia jainii

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Ceropegia vincifolia

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Ceropegia aridicola

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Ceropegia anjanerica

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Ceropegia evansii

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Ceropegia decidua

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Ceropegia striata

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Ceropegia dinteri

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Brachystelma schinzii

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