New species of Ceropegia (Apocynaceae) from the Horn of Africa

PETER V. BRUYNS; CORNELIA KLAK; TOMÁŠ MAZUCH; FAYSAL JAMA GELLE; HASSAN SH ABDIRAHMAN ELMI; PAVEL HANÁČEK

doi:10.11646/phytotaxa.441.2.6

Issue: Vol. 441 No. 2: 4 May 2020

Type: Article

Published: 2020-05-04

DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.441.2.6

Page range: 195–202

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**New species of Ceropegia (Apocynaceae) from the Horn of Africa**

PETER V. BRUYNS⁺⁻
CORNELIA KLAK⁺⁻
TOMÁŠ MAZUCH⁺⁻
FAYSAL JAMA GELLE⁺⁻
HASSAN SH ABDIRAHMAN ELMI⁺⁻
PAVEL HANÁČEK⁺⁻

Bolus Herbarium, University of Cape Town, 7701 Rondebosch, South Africa

Dřiteč 65, 53305, Czechia

Biodiversity Museum, University of Hargeisa, Hargeisa, Somaliland

Amoud University, Borama, Somaliland

Department of Plant Biology, Mendel University in Brno, Zemědělská 1, 613 00 Brno, Czechia

Asclepiadoideae Ceropegieae NE Africa sect. Echidnopsis sect. Orbea sect. Phalaena stapeliads Eudicots

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Abstract

We describe three new species of Ceropegia L., namely C. buraoensis Bruyns of sect. Echidnopsis (Hook.f.) Bruyns from Somaliland, C. marronina Bruyns & Hanáček of sect. Orbea (Haw.) Bruyns from northern Ethiopia and C. pseudorhynchantha Bruyns of sect. Phalaena H.Huber from southern Ethiopia.