Compilation
Stapelia venusta

plant 2–3 in. high; stems erect, 1/2– 3/4 in. thick, acutely 4–5-angled, glabrous, green, glaucous? angles with acute deltoid slightly recurved teeth 1–1 1/2 lin. long; flowers 1–5 together near the base of the young stems, developing successively; pedicels rather slender, 1/2– 3/4 in. long, glabrous; sepals 2 1/2–3 lin. long, lanceolate-subulate, glabrous; corolla flat-topped and 5-angled in bud, with 5 short (incurved?) teeth at the angles and five prominent ribs radiating from the short central point, 1 1/4–1 1/2 in. in diam. when expanded; tube campanulate or subglobose-campanulate, slightly constricted at the mouth; limb saucer-shaped, lobed to half-way, spreading very abruptly from the tube and raised into a very conspicuous broad convex ring around its mouth, with ascending-spreading lobes, 4–5 lin. long and broad, deltoid, acuminate; outside smooth and glabrous; inner face with some scattered fleshy spine-like processes (not hairs) 1/4– 1/2 lin. long at the throat of the tube and around its mouth upon the otherwise smooth ring, minutely papillate on the rest of the limb and lobes, light yellow, dotted with crimson to the tips of the lobes; outer corona divided into 5 pairs of narrow acute teeth nearly 1 lin. long, light pinkish or whitish with purple margins to the teeth and a blackish ring at the base around the staminal column, enlarging into 5 rounded spots opposite the pairs of teeth; inner corona-lobes about 1 1/2 lin. long, subulate, acute, connivent at the lower part over the style-apex, then rather abruptly spreading, with up-curved tips, apparently yellow. null