Secamone alpini

Monkey rope
Secamone alpini
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Eudicots
(unranked): Asterids
Order: Gentianales
Family: Apocynaceae
Subfamily: Asclepiadoideae
Genus: Secamone
Species: S. alpini
Binomial name
Secamone alpini
Schult.

Secamone alpini (also known as Monkey rope or Melktou) is a species of forest creeper in the Apocynaceae family. Its natural habitat is the afro-montane forests of eastern and southern Africa, from Kenya to Cape Province.[1][2]

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