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Stapelia patula

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Identification
Stapelia hirsuta L. [family ASCLEPIADACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Leach, L.C., Stapelia hirsuta L. [family ASCLEPIADACEAE ] Stapelia patula Willd. [family ASCLEPIADACEAE ] Stapelia patula Jacq. [family ASCLEPIADACEAE ]
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  • Stapelia hirsuta
  • Stapelia unguipetala
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Flora

Entry for STAPELIA hirsuta N. E. Br. var. δ, patula [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 hirsuta N. E. Br. var. δ, patula [family ASCLEPIADACEAE]
STAPELIA patula Willd. [family ASCLEPIADACEAE], Enum. Pl. Hort. Berol. 281; Poir. Encycl. Suppl. v. 230; Schultes, Syst. Veg. vi. 15; Link, Enum. Pl. Hort. Berol. i. 254; G. Don, Gen. Syst. iv. 114; Decne in DC. Prodr. viii. 652; N E. Br. in Hook. Ic. Pl. under t. 1914; Journ. Hort. ser. 3, xxviii. 95, fig. 15.
STAPELIA hirsuta Loisl. [family ASCLEPIADACEAE], Deslongch. in Herb. Gen. L'Amat. ii. t. 126; Drapiez, Herb. L'Amat. de Fl. v. t. 321.
STAPELIA sororia Jacq. [family ASCLEPIADACEAE], Stap. t. 56, 57, and Dietr. Syn. Pl. ii. 886 (excl. syn. S. lucida, DC.), not of Masson nor of Willdenow.
STAPELIA sororia Jacq. var. [family ASCLEPIADACEAE], Stap. t. 56, 57, and Dietr. Syn. Pl. ii. 886 (excl. syn. S. lucida, DC.), not of Masson nor of Willdenow.
STAPELIA elongata Sweet [family ASCLEPIADACEAE], Hort. Brit. ed. 2, 357.
STAPELIA rufescens [family ASCLEPIADACEAE], of gardens, not of Salm-Dyck, figured without a description in the thirteenth Report of Missouri Bot. Gard. 1902, 23.
STAPELIA variegata Gouas [family ASCLEPIADACEAE], in Rev. Hort. 1857, 42, fig. 18.
Asclepias africana aizoides, &c. Commelin [family ASCLEPIADACEAE], Hort. Med. Amst. Pl. Rar. 19, t. 19; Bradley, Hist. Succ. Pl. Dec. iii. 5, t. 23, a poor figure.
Information
corolla smaller than in the type, 2 1/2–3 3/4 (rarely 4) in. in diam.; hairs on the disk rather shorter and less dense than in the type, this is especially observable in dried specimens; lobes 1 1/4–1 3/4 in. long, usually lanceolate and nearly or quite twice as long as broad; inner corona-lobes variable, 3–4 lin. long, with the dorsal wing either adnate from 1/3 to all of its length to the inner horn or free nearly or quite to the base, truncate and toothed at the top or deltoid, narrowly deltoid-lanceolate or oblong, entire or toothed; follicles slightly diverging, about 5 in. long, 4–5 lin. thick, fusiform, shortly beaked, very minutely and rather thinly puberulous, marked with longitudinal purple-brown lines; seeds not seen; otherwise as in the type. null

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