| Author: |
Nicholas Edward Brown, 1902 |
| Family: |
APOCYNACEAE |
| Origin: |
Botswana, Congo, Eswatini, Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa,
Zambia, Zimbabwe |
| Soil: |
Mix |
| Water:
|
Medium |
| Sun: |
Maximum |
| Thickness: |
5
Centimetres |
| Height: |
1
Meter |
| Flower:
|
? |
| Propagate: |
Seeds/(Cuttings?) |
| Names:
|
- |
| Synonyms: |
Cryptolepis monteireae, Oliver. |
This member of the
Apocynaceae family was given this name by Nicholas Edward Brown in
1902. It is found in
Botswana, Congo, Eswatini, Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa,
Zambia and Zimbabwe. The bulbs will grow to five centimetres in
diameter, the stems reaches for one meter.
The genera name from from
Greek, stomat-, 'stoma' and -stemma; 'crown'. The
species name after Mrs. Rose Monteiro,
1840, the wife of Joachim J. Monteiro, a Portuguese
entomologist and naturalist; they collected plant in Angola and
Mozambique
It is in the
subfamily Periplocoideae. Former a member of the Asclepiadaceae
and the Periplocaceae family.
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