J. Lavranos (2006) Edithcolea Flora of Somalia 3: 184-185
Plants succulent herbs; stems 10-15 mm thick. Pedicels 14-18 mm long, about 2 mm think; corollas (30-)60-120 mm wide, with short tubes about 6 mm wide, broad, flat limbs and broadly triangular reflexed lobes; limbs and lower parts of the lobes basically yellowish with an intricate pattern of more or less concentrically arranged dark purple dots which are usually densely distributed but sometimes almost absent and become wider and more widely spaced in an arc in the middle of each lobe; corolla margins and the apical portions of the lobes usually uniformly purple or greenish brown with a fringe of long, club-shaped purple hairs that also border the the inner side of the margins and lobes and extend in five radial lines from the sinuses between the lobes to the outer rim of the tube; outer corona lobes acutely bifid, hairy on the inner side; inner corona lobes strap-shaped in their middle portion, joined above the staminal column, minutely tuberculate.
Ceropegia sordida [= Edithcolea grandis] grows in deciduous bushland or woodland on sand, limestone or other substrates at 200-1500 m. It is known from all regions (N1-3, C1-2, S1-3) in the Flora of Somalia and from Djibouti, Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, Yemen, and Socotra.
Plants of the World Online (POWO): Ceropegia sordida Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF): Ceropegia sordida. There were no records of naturally occurrences in GBIF on 2024-05-01 and one only three records overall.