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![Filed as Orbea variegata (L.) Haw. [family APOCYNACEAE]](/fsi/img/size1/alukaplant/nu/phase_01/nu0007/nu0021407-0.jpg)
Filed as Orbea variegata (L.) Haw. [family APOCYNACEAE]
Rump, W.G., #s.n.
1931-03-01
Specimens
South Africa
Orbea variegata (L.) Haw. [family APOCYNACEAE] (stored under name); Verified by L.C.Leach
![Filed as Orbea variegata (L.) Haw. [family APOCYNACEAE]](/fsi/img/size1/alukaplant/pre/phase_01/pre0000/pre0498763-0.jpg)
Filed as Orbea variegata (L.) Haw. [family APOCYNACEAE]
Olivier, M.C., #211
1963-05-01
Specimens
South Africa
Orbea variegata (L.) Haw. [family APOCYNACEAE] (stored under name); Verified by Leach,L.C.
![Lectotype of Stapelia variegata L. [family APOCYNACEAE]](/fsi/img/size1/alukaplant/linn/phase_01/linn0001/linn-hl311-1.jpg)
Lectotype of Stapelia variegata L. [family APOCYNACEAE]
Anon., #s.n.
None
Specimens
Unknown
Lectotype of Stapelia variegata L. [family APOCYNACEAE] (stored under name)
Orbea variegata (L.) Haw. [family ASCLEPIADACEAE]
Orbea variegata (L.) Haw. [family ASCLEPIADACEAE]
![Stapelia hanburyana Berger & Ruest [family ASCLEPIADACEAE]](/fsi/img/size1/alukaplant/k/phase_01/k0007/k000306237.jpg)
Stapelia hanburyana Berger & Ruest [family ASCLEPIADACEAE]
None, #None
01-01-1907
Specimens
Orbea variegata (L.) Haw. [family ASCLEPIADACEAE]
Stapelia hanburyana Berger & Ruest [family ASCLEPIADACEAE] (stored under name)
Stapelia hanburyana Berger & Ruest [family ASCLEPIADACEAE] (stored under name)
![Holotype of Stapelia divergens N.E.Br. [family ASCLEPIADACEAE]](/fsi/img/size1/alukaplant/k/phase_01/k0003/k000306223.jpg)
Holotype of Stapelia divergens N.E.Br. [family ASCLEPIADACEAE]
Berger, A., #s.n.
06-10-1904
Specimens
Orbea variegata (L.) Haw. [family ASCLEPIADACEAE]
Holotype of Stapelia divergens N.E.Br. [family ASCLEPIADACEAE] (stored under name)
Holotype of Stapelia divergens N.E.Br. [family ASCLEPIADACEAE] (stored under name)
![Type of Euphorbia bayeri L.C.Leach [family EUPHORBIACEAE]](/fsi/img/size1/alukaplant/k/phase_01/k0008/k001070508.jpg)
Type of Euphorbia bayeri L.C.Leach [family EUPHORBIACEAE]
Bayer, M.B., #4875
11-09-1985
Specimens
Type of Euphorbia bayeri L.C.Leach [family EUPHORBIACEAE] (stored under name); Verified by Leach, L.C.,
![Type of Stapelia albicans Sprenger [family ASCLEPIADACEAE]](/fsi/img/size1/alukaplant/k/phase_01/k0008/k000306238.jpg)
Type of Stapelia albicans Sprenger [family ASCLEPIADACEAE]
None, #None
None
Specimens
Stapelia angulata Todaro [family ASCLEPIADACEAE]
Orbea variegata (L.) Haw. [family ASCLEPIADACEAE]
Type of Stapelia albicans Sprenger [family ASCLEPIADACEAE] (stored under name)
Orbea variegata (L.) Haw. [family ASCLEPIADACEAE]
Type of Stapelia albicans Sprenger [family ASCLEPIADACEAE] (stored under name)
![STAPELIA variegata N. E. Br. var. e, clypeata [family ASCLEPIADACEAE]](/fsi/img/misc/plants/static_thumbs/flora_capensis_icon96.jpg)
STAPELIA variegata N. E. Br. var. e, clypeata [family ASCLEPIADACEAE]
Flora Capensis, Vol 4, page 518, (1909) Author: By N. E. BROWN.
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Reference Sources
corolla-lobes with or without a microscopic ciliation, pale greenish-yellow or sulphur-yellow, with the spots irregularly scattered or in longitudinal rows, some of the lower occasionally confluent, but without or with very few slender purple-brown lines among them and the basal part usually not darker than elsewhere; outer corona-lobes variably bifid from 1/3– 2/3 of the way down, with the teeth varying from stout to slender and from parallel to widely diverging, with or more often without a minute tooth in the notch; inner corona-lobes with the horns subequal or the outer shorter than the inner, both clavate or the outer scarcely thickened at the apex. null
STAPELIA variegata N. E. Br. var. a, trisulca [family ASCLEPIADACEAE]
Flora Capensis, Vol 4, page 518, (1909) Author: By N. E. BROWN.
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Reference Sources
corolla in mature (not when younger) bud flat- or round-topped, not pointed; disk flat at the back; spots on the lobes irregular or more or less in longitudinal rows, more crowded at the base, with rather thick lines between them, producing a somewhat dark effect; outer corona-lobes rather deeply bifid, with a minute tooth in the notch; otherwise as in the type. null
STAPELIA variegata N. E. Br. var. o, picta [family ASCLEPIADACEAE]
Flora Capensis, Vol 4, page 518, (1909) Author: By N. E. BROWN.
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Reference Sources
stems rather slender, 3–4 lin. thick; corolla rather small, about 2 in. in diam., marked with large irregular blotches or confluent spots of very dark crimson-brown upon a pale yellow ground, which forms irregular transverse and longitudinal lines between them; annulus rather lighter in colour than the lobes, with brighter spots; outer corona-lobes oblong-linear, divided nearly or quite to half-way down into 2 parallel linear teeth, otherwise as in the type. null
STAPELIA variegata N. E. Br. var. j, Curtisii [family ASCLEPIADACEAE]
Flora Capensis, Vol 4, page 518, (1909) Author: By N. E. BROWN.
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Reference Sources
corolla pale greenish-yellow or lemon-yellow, with rather numerous and usually rather small purple-brown spots irregularly scattered or in longitudinal rows; annulus circular, rather paler with smaller spots; outer corona-lobes entire and very obtuse or subtruncate, emarginate, or very minutely and equally 3-toothed at the apex, sometimes in the same flower! yellowish-green, dotted with purple-brown; outer horn of the inner corona-lobes about as long as or shorter than the inner, ascending, slightly thickened at the apex. null
STAPELIA variegata N. E. Br. var. c, planiflora [family ASCLEPIADACEAE]
Flora Capensis, Vol 4, page 518, (1909) Author: By N. E. BROWN.
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Reference Sources
corolla acute in bud; disk flat on the back when expanded; spots on the lobes irregularly scattered, without or with inconspicuous slender purple-brown lines intermingled with them; outer corona-lobes bifid, teeth not spreading; inner corona-lobes with subequal horns, the outer ascending-spreading, slightly or not at all clavate at the apex; otherwise as in the type. null
STAPELIA variegata N. E. Br. var. b, marginata [family ASCLEPIADACEAE]
Flora Capensis, Vol 4, page 518, (1909) Author: By N. E. BROWN.
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Reference Sources
corolla-lobes narrowly margined and covered with small irregularly scattered spots of dark purple-brown, without intermingling lines or a suffusion of purple-brown at their base around the subpentagonal annulus, which is of a paler yellow with rather small dots of purple-brown; outer corona-lobes not much longer than broad, oblong, shortly bifid, with a broad notch and subparallel or very slightly diverging obtuse teeth, pale yellowish dotted only on the teeth with purple-brown and with 3 spots of the same colour at the base, “the middle one oblong, yellow in the centre, the lateral shorter, clavate” (Willdenow); horns of the inner corona diverging, with the outer subulate, obtuse; otherwise as in the type. null
STAPELIA variegata N. E. Br. var. p, marmorata [family ASCLEPIADACEAE]
Flora Capensis, Vol 4, page 518, (1909) Author: By N. E. BROWN.
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Reference Sources
corolla rather small, 1 3/4–2 in. in diam.; lobes broadly ovate, subacuminate, not ciliate, blackish-purple, with a few irregular transverse and longitudinal pale yellow markings, annulus scarcely paler than the lobes, with a few irregular yellow markings and dots; outer corona-lobes with parallel sides, bifid to about 1/3 of the way down, with parallel teeth, sulphur-yellow with a stripe down the centre and some dots on the teeth dark purple-brown; inner corona-lobes pale yellow, dotted with purple-brown, with the outer horn very short, not more than half as long as the inner horn, subulate, not clavate, erect. null
STAPELIA lepida Jacq. [family ASCLEPIADACEAE]
Flora Capensis, Vol 4, page 518, (1909) Author: By N. E. BROWN.
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Reference Sources
plant very like S. variegata, glabrous in all parts, compactly branched; stems 2–3 in. long, 4–5 lin. thick, glabrous; flowers 1–2 together near the base of the stems, successively developed; pedicels 2/3–1 in. long; sepals 2–2 1/2 lin. long, ovate, acute or acuminate; corolla rather small, about 1 1/2 in. in diam., with a distinct annulus on the disk; inner face transversely rugose on the lobes, granulate-tuberculate on the annulus, glabrous and not ciliate, sulphur-yellow, covered with rather small irregularly scattered dark purple-brown spots, without intermingling lines, those on the paler annulus smaller than those on the lobes, which are about 1/2 in. long, broadly ovate, acute; annulus with a recurved-spreading acute margin; outer corona-lobes 1 1/2 lin. long, 3/4–1 lin. broad, oblong, emarginate or bifid, sometimes with a minute tooth at the base of the notch, very pale, greenish or greenish-yellow, with or without a central suffused and dotted stripe extending to about 2/3 of the way up or some dots around the teeth; inner corona-lobes 2-horned, pale yellow or greenish, with or without purple-brown dots; inner horn 1 1/2–1 2/3 lin. long, erect, recurving at the slightly clavate apex; outer horn ascending-spreading, half as long as the inner or shorter, subulate. null
STAPELIA variegata N. E. Br. var. m, conspurcata [family ASCLEPIADACEAE]
Flora Capensis, Vol 4, page 518, (1909) Author: By N. E. BROWN.
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Reference Sources
corolla rather small, about 2 in. in diam., flattish on the back under the pentagonal or suborbicular annulus; lobes minutely but distinctly ciliate nearly to their tips with subclavate white and purple-brown hairs, rather darkly coloured from the irregular spots being more or less confluent and often covering the greater part of the lobe; outer corona-lobes varying from entire and acute to deeply bifid with parallel teeth or minutely and equally 3-toothed at the apex, even in different flowers on the same plant; inner corona-horns subequal or the outer shorter and ascending-spreading, acute or slightly clavate; otherwise as in the type. null
STAPELIA variegata Linn. [family ASCLEPIADACEAE]
Flora Capensis, Vol 4, page 518, (1909) Author: By N. E. BROWN.
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Reference Sources
plant glabrous in all parts, freely branching at the base; stems erect from a decumbent base, 2–6 in. long, 4–5 lin. (in some varieties and hybrids up to 1/2 in.) square, very obtusely 4-angled, with conical acute spreading teeth, 1 1/2–2 lin. long, often having a minute tooth (stipule) on each side of the withering point, green, often mottled all over or tinted with purple at the tips; flowers 1–5 together at the base of the young stems, developing successively; pedicels 1–2 1/4 in. long, 1–1 1/2 lin. thick; sepals 2 1/2–4 lin. long, ovate or ovate-lanceolate, acute or acuminate; corolla 2–3 in. in diam.; disk with a pentagonal annulus 3/4– 7/8 in. in diam., having a recurved acute-edged rim; lobes 2/3–1 in. long, 1/2– 7/8 in. broad, ovate, acute or shortly acuminate, flat, radiately spreading or slightly recurved, 5–7-nerved; back smooth, green, suffused on the lobes and nerved with purplish; inner surface rugose with crowded irregular transverse ridges on the lobes and with small crowded granule-like tubercles on the annulus, otherwise glabrous and without a trace of minute ciliation on the lobes, pale greenish-yellow with dark purple-brown spots arranged in 6–7 longitudinal rows or sometimes irregularly scattered, besides a series along the margins, intermingled with slender lines of the same colour, but not producing a dark effect on the basal part of the lobes, paler yellow with much smaller spots or dots of purple-brown on the annulus; outer corona-lobes ascending-spreading, 2–2 3/4 lin. long, linear-oblong, with parallel sides, minutely and obtusely 3-toothed at the apex, with the longer teeth not more than 1/8– 1/6 of the length of the lobe, pale yellow, dotted or dusted with purple-brown and with a square spot of the same colour at the base; inner corona-lobes 2-horned, pale yellow, dotted with purple-brown; horns filiform, inner about 1 1/2 lin. long, connivent-erect with recurved clavate and minutely tuberculate tips, outer suberect or ascending, straight, slightly clavate, rather shorter than or about as long as the inner. null
STAPELIA variegata N. E. Br. var. k, retusa [family ASCLEPIADACEAE]
Flora Capensis, Vol 4, page 518, (1909) Author: By N. E. BROWN.
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Reference Sources
corolla flat on the back, coloured much as in var. bufonia but less darkly at the base of the lobes and the spots on the pentagonal annulus usually fewer, larger and more irregular in form; outer corona-lobes rather long, linear or tapering from base to apex, with a very small notch or very shortly bifid or sometimes very minutely 3-toothed at the tips, pale yellowish-green, marked at the tips and down the centre with dots or very minute specks of purple-brown and a rather paler square spot at the base; both horns of the inner corona-lobes clavate, the outer rather shorter than the inner, ascending-spreading; otherwise as in the type. null
STAPELIA variegata N. E. Br. var. h, rugosa [family ASCLEPIADACEAE]
Flora Capensis, Vol 4, page 518, (1909) Author: By N. E. BROWN.
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Reference Sources
corolla greenish-yellow with numerous small scattered spots and transverse irregular lines of dark purple-brown on the lobes and paler yellow dotted with dark purple-brown on the annulus; disk flat on the back; annulus with a rather broad flattish rim, pentagonal, with 5 slight grooves radiating from the centre to a slight notch at each angle; outer corona-lobes linear-oblong, subequally and acutely 3-toothed at the apex; otherwise as in the type. null
![CEROPEGIA variegata Decne. [family ASCLEPIADACEAE]](/fsi/img/misc/plants/static_thumbs/flora_somalia_icon96.jpg)
CEROPEGIA variegata Decne. [family ASCLEPIADACEAE]
Flora Somalia, Vol 3, (2006) Author: by M. Gilbert (Ceropegia), D. Goyder (Calotropis, Conomitra, Glossonema, Gomphocarpus, Leptadenia, Marsdenia, Odontanthera, Oxystelma, Pentatropis, Pergularia, Secamone, Stigmatorhynchus, Tylophora), J. Lavranos (Ballyanthus, Caralluma, Desmidorchis, Duvalia, Echidnopsis, Edithcolea, Huernia, Orbea, Pseudolithos, Pseudopectinaria, Rhytidocaulon, Sanguilluma, Whitesloanea), S. Liede-Schumann (Blyttia, Calciphila, Cynanchum, Goydera, Pentarrhinum, Pleurostelma, Schizostephanus), M. Thulin (Acokanthera, Adenium, Ancylobotrys, Carissa, Catharanthus, Cryptostegia, Ephippiocarpa, Hunteria, Landolphia, Nerium, Plumeria, Saba, Strophanthus, Tabernaemontana, Thevetia, Wrightia), and J. Venter (Buckollia, Cryptolepis, Periploca, Raphionacme, Schlechterella, Tacazzea). [updated by M. Thulin 2008]
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
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N1, 2; S1, 2
Climbing herb, glabrous except for the corolla; base of stem swollen in seedlings but otherwise without basal tuber or fusiform roots; stems very fleshy, up to 1 cm thick, smooth, usually irregularly blotched with pinkish-brown, twining only towards tip. Leaves reduced to fleshy ovate scales, soon lost. Inflorescence a pedunculate few-flowered, raceme-like cyme, peduncle longer than pedicels. Sepals ± linear. Corolla up to 6 cm long, outside glabrous; tube up to 45 mm long, basal swelling double, the lower swelling ovoid, uniformly grey, demarcated from upper swelling by well-defined constriction marking position of internal annulus, upper swelling spotted with red, the 2 together c. 1/2 as long as tube which widens gradually to mouth, interior glabrous except for band of cilia at top of upper chamber; lobes up to c. 16 mm long, with the sinuses between them produced into very prominent oblong lobes ± as long as corolla-tube, outside grey spotted with red, interior brilliant white with dark red tips to lobes, uniformly pilose. Outer corona of 10 slender erect lobes; inner corona-lobes similar to outer lobes. Follicles fusiform-cylindrical with blunt ± swollen tips.
STAPELIA variegata N. E. Br. var. f, mixta [family ASCLEPIADACEAE]
Flora Capensis, Vol 4, page 518, (1909) Author: By N. E. BROWN.
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Reference Sources
corolla 2 1/2–3 3/4 in. in diam., pale greenish-yellow, paler on the annulus, uniformly covered on the lobes with rather small purple-brown spots more or less connected on the basal half or beyond by slender purple-brown lines between the rugosities or subconfluent, and on the annulus with smaller spots or dots; disk flat or nearly so, annulus varying from nearly circular to distinctly pentagonal or somewhat 10-crenate, with a rather broad flattish-convex rim; lobes with or without a ciliation of minute thick white hairs; outer corona-lobes linear-oblong, with parallel sides, variably 2–3-toothed at the apex, yellow, dotted with purple-brown on the apical half, some of the dots extending down the margins and others down the centre to a larger spot at the base; inner corona-lobes with horns of equal length, the outer ascending; otherwise as in the type. null
STAPELIA variegata N. E. Br. var. d, bufonia [family ASCLEPIADACEAE]
Flora Capensis, Vol 4, page 518, (1909) Author: By N. E. BROWN.
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Reference Sources
corolla acutely pointed in bud; disk under the annulus shallowly basin-like; spots irregularly scattered or more rarely in longitudinal rows, with the basal part of the lobes very darkly coloured from being rather densely covered with slender purple-brown lines between and connecting the spots, sometimes so crowded and confluent that that part appears to be dark purple-brown with a very irregular network of slender greenish-yellow lines; annulus 5-angled or circular; outer corona-lobes bifid to 1/4 or 1/3 of the way down with the sides and teeth parallel, without a tooth in the notch; otherwise as in the type. null