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Stapelia angulata

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Name

Identification
Stapelia angulata Todaro [family ASCLEPIADACEAE ] Orbea variegata (L.) Haw. [family ASCLEPIADACEAE ] Stapelia albicans Sprenger [family ASCLEPIADACEAE ] (stored under name);
Related name
  • Stapelia albicans
  • Stapelia angulata
  • Orbea variegata

Flora

Entry for STAPELIA angulata Tod. [family ASCLEPIADACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, Vol 4, page 518, (1909) Author: By N. E. BROWN.
Names
STAPELIA angulata Tod. [family ASCLEPIADACEAE], [Hort. Bot. Panorm. i. 54, t. 13, fig. 3]
Information
stems about 2 1/2 in. high, like those of S. variegata, L.; corolla about 2 1/2 in. in diam., purple-brown, marked to the tips of the lobes with numerous labyrinthine transverse yellowish lines; lobes ovate, spreading or recurved, minutely ciliate with clavate hairs; annulus pentagonal or subcircular, with an erect or scarcely recurved margin, light yellowish, dotted with purple-brown; outer corona-lobes more or less narrowed and 2–3-toothed at the apex; inner corona-lobes 2-horned, pale yellowish, minutely dotted with purple-brown; horns filiform, clavate, subequal or the outer shorter. null
Distribution
SOUTH AFRICA ORIGIN: a hybrid raised in Europe, cultivated specimen!
Notes
Described from a living plant. S. mutabilis, Jacq., is in all probability one of its parents. The yellowish markings on the corolla are narrower in the specimen seen than in Todaro's figure.

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