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Ceropegia maculata, Chinna Kallar, Tamil Nadu 642106, India (c) Nandita Madhu, some rights reserved (CC BY) · observed growing wild · 2025-11-16

Ceropegia maculata Bedd.

Apocynaceae

No habitat climate 10 photographs Cactus or succulent
Add one to my plants Sow seed

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About the genus · Ceropegia

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. More on Wikipedia ›

The opening of Wikipedia, “Ceropegia”, CC BY-SA 4.0, quoted as written.

Family
Apocynaceae
Described by
Bedd.
Native to
India
Wild records
2 in range· 2 open

Also known as Ceropegia schumanniana Swarupan. & Mangaly.

Cultivation

Grouped as a cactus or succulent by the genus Ceropegia, which is reliably one kind of plant (archetype table). The table holds no figure for this group, which spans too much for one minimum, and no habitat climate is derived yet; no cold floor is given, and no prose comes from the table.

Nothing derived: no habitat climate for this species, and the archetype table has no figure for its genus or family.

Climate across the habitat

No habitat climate can be derived: Only 1 distinct land cell of the climate grid holds an in-range record; three are needed for an envelope.

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP.
Openly licensed records inside the range, framed on where they fall.
NativeIndia
Kew's description“climbing subshrub” · “seasonally dry tropical”· quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 2 georeferenced records inside the native range, all openly licensed and shown on the map. Under a dozen records: treat the map as indicative. No climate envelope is derived for this species.

Photographs

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Photographs: (c) Nandita Madhu, some rights reserved (CC BY) (3); T R Shankar Raman, CC BY, iNaturalist via GBIF (2); Nandita Madhu, CC BY, iNaturalist via GBIF (3).

Photographs: iNaturalist did not answer when this page was built; what is shown came from the sources that did.

Papers naming this species

Works whose title or abstract names Ceropegia maculata, most cited first, from OpenAlex (CC0). A mention, not a cultivation source: nothing on this page is drawn from them.

In vitro micropropagation, flowering, and tuberization of Ceropegia maculata Bedd.—an endemic plant of Southern Western Ghats
Rengasamy Anbazhakan, Chinnaiyan Rajasekar, Mariappan Muthukumar, Selvaraju Parthibhan (2022) · In Vitro Cellular & Developmental Biology - Plant
Effect of seaweeds extract and plant growth regulators on high-frequency in vitro regeneration and ex-vitro rooting of Ceropegia maculata Bedd.: an endemic species of Southern Western Ghats
Rengasamy Anbazhakan, Selvaraju Parthibhan, T. Senthil Kumar (2022) · Plant Cell Tissue and Organ Culture (PCTOC)
Ceropegia maculata Bedd., a Rare Report from Anamalai Tiger Reserve Tamil Nadu, India
B. Subbaiyan, Madhavi Ganesan, Ganesh K. Ram, P. Priyanka (2025) · Indian Forester
Rediscovery of Ceropegia maculata Bedd. (Apocynaceae: Ceropegieae) after 154 years from Tamil Nadu, India
Chinnaiyan Rajasekar, S. Jeevith, RAMALINGAM KOTTAIMUTHU (2018) · Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)

Other Ceropegia 699 in the reference

Ceropegia abayensis Apocynaceae Ceropegia abyssinica Apocynaceae Ceropegia achtenii Apocynaceae
Ceropegia acicularis Apocynaceae Ceropegia acutiloba Apocynaceae
Ceropegia adamsiana Apocynaceae Ceropegia adscendens Apocynaceae Ceropegia affinis Apocynaceae Ceropegia africana Apocynaceae
Ceropegia ahmarensis Apocynaceae Ceropegia albipilosa Apocynaceae Ceropegia albisepta Apocynaceae all 700 ›

History & registers

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