Succulent twiner, roots forming a solid, rounded tuber. Leaves well developed, lanceolate-ovate with strongly cordate base, up to 20 mm long and 20 mm wide, fleshy. Flowers 18-25 mm long, flower stalks 8-10 mm long. Corolla tube more or less straight,15-22 mm long, cream to pale pink-purple, with globose basal inflation; lobes narrowly spathulate, fused at the tip, forming a cage that is expanded, purplish, rough-hairy all over, not extended into a 5-winged head. [C. linearis E. Mey. subsp. woodii (Schltr.) Huber]

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Source: Forster, P. (2002). Asclepiadaceae. In: Spencer, R.. Horticultural Flora of South-eastern Australia. Volume 4. Flowering plants. Dicotyledons. Part 3. The identification of garden and cultivated plants. University of New South Wales Press.