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HUERNIA Thureti Cels [family ASCLEPIADACEAE]

Date Updated: 19 August 2007

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
HUERNIA Thureti Cels [family ASCLEPIADACEAE], in L'Horticult. Français, 1866, 73, t. 3 HUERNIA Thuretii Schlechter [family ASCLEPIADACEAE], in Journ. Bot. 1898, 485. Stapelia Thureti Croucher [family ASCLEPIADACEAE], in The Garden, 1877, xii. 524, with fig. on 525.
Information
stems 1–2 in. high, 3–4 lin. thick, acutely 4–5-angled, glabrous, glaucous-green; teeth 1–1 1/2 lin. long, deltoid, acute; flowers 1–4 together, successively developed at the base of the stems; pedicels 6–8 lin. long, 1–1 1/4 lin. thick, glabrous; sepals 2 1/2 lin. long, lanceolate-subulate, glabrous; corolla 1 in. in diam.; tube subglobose-campanulate, about 1/3 in. long and 4 1/2 lin. in diam. outside, slightly constricted at the mouth, disk and lobes horizontally spreading abruptly from the tube; lobes 4 lin. long, 4 1/2 lin. broad, deltoid, very acute; outside and within quite glabrous, without processes or papillæ on the inner face, buff-coloured or yellow-ochre, marked on the lobes with numerous small blood-red spots, those on the disk transversely elongated, passing into transverse lines in the tube, which is blood-red at the base; outer corona-lobes about 2/3 lin. long and 1 lin. broad, subquadrate, bifid, alternating with 5 minute tubercles, nearly black; inner corona-lobes about 1 lin. long, subulate, connivent-erect, with the slightly spreading tips produced 3/4 lin. or more above the anthers, with a slight transverse thickening at the base, purple-brown. null
Distribution
SOUTH AFRICA without locality, cultivated specimens!
Notes
Described from living plants. A specimen (Watermeyer in Herb. Pillans, 1306) collected near Tsomo, in the Transkei, of which I have not seen flowers, may belong to this species.

Date Updated: 19 August 2007

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
HUERNIA Thureti Cels [family ASCLEPIADACEAE], in L'Horticult. Français, 1866, 73, t. 3 HUERNIA Thuretii Schlechter [family ASCLEPIADACEAE], in Journ. Bot. 1898, 485. Stapelia Thureti Croucher [family ASCLEPIADACEAE], in The Garden, 1877, xii. 524, with fig. on 525.
Information
stems 1–2 in. high, 3–4 lin. thick, acutely 4–5-angled, glabrous, glaucous-green; teeth 1–1 1/2 lin. long, deltoid, acute; flowers 1–4 together, successively developed at the base of the stems; pedicels 6–8 lin. long, 1–1 1/4 lin. thick, glabrous; sepals 2 1/2 lin. long, lanceolate-subulate, glabrous; corolla 1 in. in diam.; tube subglobose-campanulate, about 1/3 in. long and 4 1/2 lin. in diam. outside, slightly constricted at the mouth, disk and lobes horizontally spreading abruptly from the tube; lobes 4 lin. long, 4 1/2 lin. broad, deltoid, very acute; outside and within quite glabrous, without processes or papillæ on the inner face, buff-coloured or yellow-ochre, marked on the lobes with numerous small blood-red spots, those on the disk transversely elongated, passing into transverse lines in the tube, which is blood-red at the base; outer corona-lobes about 2/3 lin. long and 1 lin. broad, subquadrate, bifid, alternating with 5 minute tubercles, nearly black; inner corona-lobes about 1 lin. long, subulate, connivent-erect, with the slightly spreading tips produced 3/4 lin. or more above the anthers, with a slight transverse thickening at the base, purple-brown. null
Distribution
SOUTH AFRICA without locality, cultivated specimens!
Notes
Described from living plants. A specimen (Watermeyer in Herb. Pillans, 1306) collected near Tsomo, in the Transkei, of which I have not seen flowers, may belong to this species.
HUERNIA Thureti Cels [family ASCLEPIADACEAE]
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