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STAPELIA variegata N. E. Br. var. b, marginata [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 variegata N. E. Br. var. b, marginata [family ASCLEPIADACEAE]
STAPELIA marginata Willd. [family ASCLEPIADACEAE], Enum. Pl. Hort. Berol. Suppl. 13; Schultes, Syst. Veg. vi. 39; Link, Enum. Pl. Hort. Berol. i. 257; Decne in DC. Prodr. viii. 659; Schlechter in Journ. Bot. 1898, 481.
STAPELIA planiflora Willd. var. marginata [family ASCLEPIADACEAE], Enum. Pl. Hort. Berol. 284; Poir. Encycl. Suppl. v. 232.
Orbea marginata Schultes [family ASCLEPIADACEAE], Syst. Veg. vi. 834; G. Don, Gen. Syst. iv. 120.
Orbea planiflora G. Don var. marginata [family ASCLEPIADACEAE], l.c. 120.
Information
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
Notes
I have seen a specimen of this from Herb. Link in the Berlin Herbarium, but have not seen it alive.[S. marginata, Rüst in Monatsschr. Kakt. vi. 37, not of Willd., is a hybrid, with a corolla about 3 in. in diam.; lobes minutely but distinctly ciliate with (apparently) simple hairs, dark purple-brown along the margins and on the apical half, with the centre of the basal half yellow, spotted with purple-brown, and the disk around the annulus purple-brown; annulus circular, light yellow, densely spotted with purple-brown in the cup, almost without spots on the rim; outer corona-lobes oblong-linear, bifid to 1/3 of the way down, pale yellow, dusted on the teeth and down the centre with purple-brown and having a spot at the base.]
STAPELIA variegata N. E. Br. var. b, marginata [family ASCLEPIADACEAE]
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