title: Ceropegia striata
text: # Ceropegia striata
  
  Ceropegia striata is a plant species endemic to Madagascar. It is known only from the Vavavato Massif in the central highlands, at an elevation of approximately 1800 m.
  
  Ceropegia striata is a geophytic plant with a large tuberous base. Stems are thin, green, hairless, less than 3 mm in diameter, twining over other vegetation. Leaves are narrowly elliptic, up to 3 cm long. Flowers usually solitary. Corolla up to 35 mm long, the lower third forming a hollow sphere about 7 mm in diameter, narrowing into a conical upper corolla, whitish green with purple stripes, with a corona on top.
  
  