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1.
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59: 4 (1892)
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=
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(
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.
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. Brown)
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.
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. White &amp;
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. Sloane (1937)
</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="47">
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=
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(
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.
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. Brown)
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.
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. White &amp;
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. Sloane (1937)
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<taxonomicName class="Magnoliopsida" family="Apocynaceae" genus="Huernia" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Huernia macrocarpa var. schweinfurthii" order="Gentianales" pageId="0" pageNumber="47" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="variety" species="macrocarpa" variety="schweinfurthii">Huernia macrocarpa schweinfurthii</taxonomicName>
=
<taxonomicName class="Magnoliopsida" family="Apocynaceae" genus="Huernia" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Huernia macrocarpa subsp. var. var. schweinfurthii" order="Gentianales" pageId="0" pageNumber="47" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="variety" species="macrocarpa" subSpecies="var." variety="schweinfurthii">Huernia macrocarpa var. schweinfurthii</taxonomicName>
(
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. Berger)
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.
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. White &amp;
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. Sloane (1937)
</paragraph>
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=
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<collectionCode country="China" lsid="urn:lsid:biocol.org:col:13092" name="Nanjing University" type="Herbarium">N</collectionCode>
.
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. Brown (1892)
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=
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(
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=
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</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="47">
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=
<taxonomicName authorityName="A.Berger" authorityYear="1910" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Apocynaceae" genus="Huernia" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Huernia penzigii subsp. var. var. schweinfurthii" order="Gentianales" pageId="0" pageNumber="47" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="variety" species="penzigii" subSpecies="var." variety="schweinfurthii">Huernia penzigii var. schweinfurthii</taxonomicName>
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.
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="47">Description.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="47">
Dwarf succulent forming dense clump.
<emphasis bold="true" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="47">Branches</emphasis>
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long, non-rhizomatous, erect, decumbent, grey-green mottled with purple-red; tubercles up to
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long (including leaf-rudiment), conical, spreading, laterally flattened and joined into 5 angles along branch, each tipped with a soft slender acuminate caducous leaf-rudiment.
<emphasis bold="true" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="47">Inflorescence</emphasis>
usually only 1 per branch, arising in lower half of branch, each bearing 2-3 flowers developing mainly successively, flowers with no unpleasant smell;
<emphasis bold="true" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="47">pedicel</emphasis>
spreading and holding flower facing horizontally.
<emphasis bold="true" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="47">Corolla</emphasis>
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diam., shallow bowl shape; outside smooth, cream-speckled with maroon, with 1 heavy (+ 2 lighter) raised longitudinal veins running from lobes to base of tube; inside uniformly coloured with purplish-red, covered except in lower third of tube with very small wart-like papillae;
<emphasis bold="true" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="47">tube</emphasis>
cupular;
<emphasis bold="true" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="47">lobes</emphasis>
ascending, deltoid, acuminate.
<emphasis bold="true" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="47">Corona</emphasis>
without basal stipe;
<emphasis bold="true" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="47">outer lobes</emphasis>
spreading on base of tube and fused partially to it, discrete to 5-lobed with each lobe subquadrate emarginate or slightly crenate, blackish-maroon;
<emphasis bold="true" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="47">inner lobes</emphasis>
maroon, adpressed to backs of anthers exceeding them and meeting in centre, dorsiventrally flattened around laterally broadened base becoming terete above and tapering gradually to obtuse bristly apex, a transversely conspicuously gibbous, broadened at the base with an acute end.
</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="47">
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="47">Map 1.</emphasis>
Distribution of
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in
<collectingCountry name="Saudi Arabia">Saudi Arabia</collectingCountry>
.
</paragraph>
</caption>
</subSubSection>
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Distribution in
<collectingCountry name="Saudi Arabia">Saudi Arabia</collectingCountry>
.
</paragraph>
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Rare, known only from
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between Abha and Jabal Sawdah, SW
<collectingCountry name="Saudi Arabia">Saudi Arabia</collectingCountry>
(
<bibRefCitation author="Chaudhary, S" journalOrPublisher="Ministry of Agriculture and Water, Riyadh" pageId="0" pageNumber="47" refId="B12" refString="Chaudhary, S, 2001. Flora of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia: illustrated 2(2). Ministry of Agriculture and Water, Riyadh" title="Flora of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia: illustrated 2 (2)." year="2001">Chaudhary 2001</bibRefCitation>
).
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="47">General distribution.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="47">
Somaliland,
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,
<collectingCountry name="Eritrea">Eritrea</collectingCountry>
,
<collectingCountry name="Ethiopia">Ethiopia</collectingCountry>
, South west Arabian Peninsula (
<collectingCountry name="Saudi Arabia">Saudi Arabia</collectingCountry>
,
<collectingCountry name="Yemen">Yemen</collectingCountry>
) (
<bibRefCitation DOI="https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-56370-6" author="Albers, F" journalOrPublisher="Springer Science &amp; Business Media, Berlin" pageId="0" pageNumber="47" refId="B3" refString="Albers, F, Meve, U, 2002. Illustrated Handbook of Succulent Plants: Asclepiadaceae. Springer Science &amp; Business Media, Berlin, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-56370-6" title="Illustrated Handbook of Succulent Plants: Asclepiadaceae." url="https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-56370-6" year="2002">Albers and Meve 2002</bibRefCitation>
).
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="47">Habitat and ecology.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="47">
Growing amongst granitic rocks and scattered shrubs on a steep hillside at
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alt. (
<bibRefCitation author="Collenette, S" journalOrPublisher="National Commission for Wildlife Conservation and Development, Riyadh" pageId="0" pageNumber="47" refId="B15" refString="Collenette, S, 1999. Wildflowers of Saudi Arabia. National Commission for Wildlife Conservation and Development, Riyadh" title="Wildflowers of Saudi Arabia." year="1999">Collenette 1999</bibRefCitation>
).
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection pageId="0" pageNumber="47" type="diagnosis">
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="47">Diagnosis.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="47">
This species can be easily distinguished from other members of sect.
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in
<collectingCountry name="Saudi Arabia">Saudi Arabia</collectingCountry>
by the small maroon bowl-shaped flowers.
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection pageId="0" pageNumber="47" type="etymology">
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="47">Etymology.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="47">
Macrocarpus (Greek) 'makros', large; and 'karpos', fruit (
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).
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection pageId="0" pageNumber="47" type="preliminary conservation status">
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="47">Preliminary conservation status.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="47">
The species is known only from one location near Sawda Mountain; the estimated EOO and AOO of
<quantity metricMagnitude="3" metricUnit="m" metricValue="8.0" unit="km" value="8.0">8 km</quantity>
2 would place the species in the Critically Endangered (
<collectionCode country="Costa Rica" lsid="urn:lsid:biocol.org:col:15652" name="Museo Nacional de Costa Rica" type="Herbarium">CR</collectionCode>
) status. However, little is known about the size of the population and possible threats. Therefore, Data Deficient (
<collectionCode country="India" lsid="urn:lsid:biocol.org:col:13033" name="Forest Research Institute, Indian Council of Forestry Research and Education" type="Herbarium">DD</collectionCode>
) is assigned to this species.
</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="47">
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="47">Figure 5.</emphasis>
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="47">Ceropegia macrocarpa</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="47">A</emphasis>
branch
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="47">B</emphasis>
side view of dissected flower
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="47">C</emphasis>
papillae inside corolla in mouth of tube
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="47">D</emphasis>
side view of gynostegium. Drawn from photo of ex JRI Wood 1202, sub DP7571, Jabal Melhan,
<quantity metricMagnitude="4" metricUnit="m" metricValue="2.0" unit="km" value="20.0">20 km</quantity>
E Al Mighlaf,
<collectingCountry name="Yemen">Yemen</collectingCountry>
.
</paragraph>
</caption>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection pageId="0" pageNumber="47" type="materials_examined">
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="47">Additional specimens examined.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="47">
<collectingCountry name="Ethiopia">Ethiopia</collectingCountry>
,
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="47">Gilbert 2945</emphasis>
(
<collectionCode country="United Kingdom" lsid="urn:lsid:biocol.org:col:15670" name="Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh" type="Herbarium">E</collectionCode>
[fl in spirit])
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
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