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Ceropegia odorata

Ceropegia odorata

On the Rajasthan Board's rare and threatened plants listIUCN: Critically Endangered
Ceropegia odorata (Ceropegia odorata)

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Scientific name
Ceropegia odorata
Family
Apocynaceae, order Gentianales
Group
Plant
Conservation status
Critically Endangered

A climber with lantern-like flowers.

  • Spot it Slim tube flowers that briefly trap visiting flies.
  • Home Rocky hill slopes.
  • Food web Tiny flies pollinate it.
  • Why it matters Shows how rare plants depend on a small pollinator partner.
Sources and credits

Records and field notes

  • RajasthanThe Rajasthan State Biodiversity Board lists it among the rare, endangered and threatened plants of Rajasthan, for Mount Abu.[2]
  • RajasthanThe Board describes it as a climber of the Asclepiadaceae family.[2]

Sources

  1. Rajasthan State Biodiversity Board. List of Rare, Endangered and Threatened Plants of Rajasthan (55 plants) (government). Official list, published as a PDF.
  2. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species (species pages linked on each entry) (database). Global conservation status. Every species page was opened.
  3. GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and GBIF species data (family, order, Hindi names, IUCN category) (database). Open biodiversity data. Used for classification, Hindi common names and the IUCN category where one is given.
  4. Short introductions and key points written with AI help (Google Gemini and Claude) and checked against GBIF where possible (reference). AI-assisted text for general readers. Please check important details before relying on them.

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