Native records: 1 botanical areas
India
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Distribution is shown as WGSRPD Level 3 areas. It does not imply the species occurs throughout an entire area.
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A climber of seasonally dry tropical climates. Native to India.
This entry carries only the classification and distribution data recorded in WCVP. A written account is not yet available.
Distribution areas
India
- IndiaNative
Climate of the native range
The Köppen climate classes found in the areas this plant is recorded as native to. It does not mean an entire area has that climate.
- Aw Tropical, savannah
- Cwa Temperate, dry winter, hot summer
- BSh Arid, steppe, hot
The same climate occurs in 71 areas worldwide, 70 of which have no record of this plant. See them on the map
A matching climate does not mean the plant can grow there. Range limits are also set by things other than climate — dispersal history, soils, competition. Source: Beck et al. (2023), CC BY 4.0 (observed period 1991–2020).
- Family
- Apocynaceae
- Genus
- Ceropegia
Other species in Ceropegia
Sources
World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP), version 2026-06-04
India · Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew · wcvp_distribution.csv
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Image information
Photograph of Ceropegia thwaitesii
William Jackson Hooker (1785-1865) · Public domain · File page