Ceropegia meyeri
A staple member of the genus due to it’s classic examples of what can be found in a floral trap. (Ex: Downward facing hairs in the dark neck, corolla tube is glabrous besides hair structures up until the underside of the lip, where lip forms dilation creates the funneled opening, corolla tube is bottle shaped, bottom of the corolla has small semi-translucent spots where light comes in to depict false exits, glands use scent to direct pollinators to the corona.)
As far as distribution is concerned for native locality, KEW describes it as: Cape Provinces, KwaZulu-Natal, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Northern Provinces, Zambia, Zimbabwe.
The habitat preference seems to be more open woodlands with shrubs or shrub thickets.
Finding one in situ isn’t too uncommon; but, this plant is pretty interesting and worth getting to know, then again, what Ceropegia isn’t worth getting to know?
Photographed by: Elizabeth Peters