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Stapelia irrorata

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Identification
Stapelia irrorata Masson [family APOCYNACEAE ]
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  • Stapelia irrorata

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Entry for STAPELIA irrorata Masson [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 irrorata Masson [family ASCLEPIADACEAE], Stap. 12, t. 9;—Willd. Sp. Pl. i. 1291; Pers. Syn. Pl. i. 280; Poir. Encycl. vii. 388; Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. 2, ii. 94; Schultes, Syst. Veg. vi. 29; Spreng. Syst. Veg. i. 841; Dietr. Syn. Pl. ii. 887; Decne in DC. Prodr. viii. 655.
Podanthes irrorata Haw. [family ASCLEPIADACEAE], Syn. Pl. Succ. 33; G. Don, Gen. Syst. iv. 118.
Information
stems erect, decumbent at the base, 1 1/2–3 1/2 in. long, 1/3– 1/2 in. thick excluding the teeth, obtusely 4-angled, glabrous, green; teeth conical, acute, spreading, 2–3 lin. long; flowers solitary (always?) at the base of the stems; pedicels about 1 in. long, glabrous; sepals ovate, acute, glabrous; corolla about 2 3/4 in. in diam., pentagonal and acutely pointed in bud, glabrous and smooth outside, rugose on the glabrous inner face; disk depressed or saucer-shaped, purplish according to the figure; annulus none; lobes spreading, 3/4–1 in. long, 7–8 lin. broad, ovate, acuminate, not ciliate, pale yellow spotted and dotted with blood-red (purple-brown?);corona? null
Distribution
SOUTH AFRICA without locality, Masson.
Notes
This species only appears to differ from S. verrucosa by the corolla being destitute of an annulus. It has not been refound by any other collector, and no specimen of it appears to have been preserved.

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