Ceropegia nilotica Kotschy

Native to:

Angola, Botswana, Burkina, Cameroon, Caprivi Strip, Ethiopia, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Kenya, KwaZulu-Natal, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Northern Provinces, Rwanda, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Zambia, Zaïre, Zimbabwe

POWO follows these authorities in accepting this name:

• Bruyns, P.V. (2014). The Apocynaceae of Namibia. Strelitzia 34: 1-158. National Botanical Institute, Pretoria.
• Darbyshire, I., Kordofani, M., Farag, I., Candiga, R. & Pickering, H. (eds.) (2015). The Plants of Sudan and South Sudan: 1-400. Kew publishing, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
• Figueiredo, E. & Smith, G.F. (2008). Plants of Angola. Strelitzia 22: 1-279. National Botanical Institute, Pretoria.
• Germishuizen, G. & Meyer, N.L. (eds.) (2003). Plants of Southern Africa an annotated checklist. Strelitzia 14: 1-1231. National Botanical Institute, Pretoria.
• Govaerts, R. (1999). World Checklist of Seed Plants 3(1, 2a & 2b): 1-1532. MIM, Deurne.
• Goyder, D.J., Gilbert, M.G. & Venter, H.J.T. (2020). Flora Zambesiaca 7(3): 1-375. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
• Goyder, S., Harris, T., Masinde, S., Meve, U. & Venter, J. (2012). Flora of Tropical East Africa, Apocynaceae(2): 1-530.
• Hedberg, I., Edwards, S. & Nemomissa, S. (eds.) (2003). Flora of Ethiopia and Eritrea 4(1): 1-352. The National Herbarium, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia & The Department of Systematic Botany, Upps.
• Onana, J.M. (2011). The vascular plants of Cameroon a taxonomic checklist with IUCN assessments: 1-195. National herbarium of Cameroon, Yaoundé.
• Thiombiano, A., Schmidt, M., Dressler, S., Ouédraogo, A., Hahn, K. & Zizka, G. (2012). Catalogue des plantes vasculaires du Burkina Faso. Boissiera 65: 1-391.

Flora Zambesiaca

• Archer  in Upland Kenya Wild. Fl., ed. 2: 183 (1994).
• Archer, Kenya CeropegiaScrapb.: 61, XIII (1992);
• Brown in F.T.A. 4(1): 447 (1903).
• Bullock in Kew Bull. 8: 58 (1954).
• Dyer in Codd et al., Fl. S. Africa 27 (4): 59, fig.12.3 (1980).
• Gilbert in Hedberg & Edwards, Fl. Ethiopia Eritrea 4(1): 165, fig.140.37.4 (2003).
• Huber in Mem. Soc. Brot. 12: 103 (1958), pro parte.
• Kotschy, Sitzungsber. Kaiserl. Akad. Wiss., Math.-Naturwiss. Cl., Abt. 1, 51: 356 (1865).
• Lisowski & Malaisse in Bull. Jard. Bot. Natl. Belg. 44: 417, figs.7,8f (1974).
• Malaisse, in Bull. Jard. Bot. Natl. Belg. 54: 232 (1984).
• Masinde in F.T.E.A., Apocynaceae (part 2): 283–285 (2012).
• Meve, Ill. Handb. Succ. Pl. Asclepiadaceae: 92 (2002).
• Werdermann in Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 70: 202 (1939).

Kew Backbone Distributions

• Bruyns, P.V. (2014). The Apocynaceae of Namibia. Strelitzia 34: 1-158. National Botanical Institute, Pretoria.
• Germishuizen, G. & Meyer, N.L. (eds.) (2003). Plants of Southern Africa an annotated checklist. Strelitzia 14: 1-1231. National Botanical Institute, Pretoria.
• Goyder, D.J., Gilbert, M.G. & Venter, H.J.T. (2020). Flora Zambesiaca 7(3): 1-375. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
• Goyder, S., Harris, T., Masinde, S., Meve, U. & Venter, J. (2012). Flora of Tropical East Africa, Apocynaceae(2): 1-530.
• Hedberg, I., Edwards, S. & Nemomissa, S. (eds.) (2003). Flora of Ethiopia and Eritrea 4(1): 1-352. The National Herbarium, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia & The Department of Systematic Botany, Upps.
• Onana, J.M. (2011). The vascular plants of Cameroon a taxonomic checklist with IUCN assessments: 1-195. National herbarium of Cameroon, Yaoundé.
• Thiombiano, A., Schmidt, M., Dressler, S., Ouédraogo, A., Hahn, K. & Zizka, G. (2012). Catalogue des plantes vasculaires du Burkina Faso. Boissiera 65: 1-391.

Flora of Tropical East Africa

• Asklepios 58: 24, figs 1–l & 3–1 (1993)
• B.J.B.B. 44: 417, figs. 7 & 8 F (1974)
• Cact. Succ. J. (US) 6: 107 (1999)
• E.J. 70: 202 (1939)
• F.S.A. 4: 59 (1980)
• F.T.A. 4(1): 447 (1903)
• Fl. Eth. 4(1): 165 (2003).
• K.B. 8: 58 (1954)
• Kenya Ceropegia Scrapb.: 93, XX (1992)
• Mem. Soc. Brot. 12: 103 (1958) in part
• Sitz. Akad. Wien. Math.-Nat. Abh. 1, 51: 356 (1865)