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STAPELIA variegata N. E. Br. var. e, clypeata [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
STAPELIA variegata N. E. Br. var. e, clypeata [family ASCLEPIADACEAE] STAPELIA clypeata J. Donn [family ASCLEPIADACEAE], Hort. Cantab. ed. 3, 43, and Jacq. Stap. t. 34; Schultes, Syst. Veg. vi. 40; Spreng. Syst. Veg. i. 838, excl. syn.; Dietr. Syn. Pl. ii. 885; Decne in DC. Prodr. viii. 660. STAPELIA Bufonis Sims [family ASCLEPIADACEAE], Bot. Mag. t. 1676; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 332? STAPELIA quinquenervis Schultes [family ASCLEPIADACEAE], Syst. Veg. vi. 37; Decne in DC. Prodr. viii. 658. STAPELIA variegata Jacq. [family ASCLEPIADACEAE], Stap. t. 39; Thunb. Prodr. 46; Fl. Cap. ed. 2, ii. 170, and ed. Schultes, 241; N. E. Br. in Journ. Linn. Soc. xvii. 169, and in Hook. Ic. under t. 1907, not of Linn. Orbea clypeata Haw. [family ASCLEPIADACEAE], Suppl. Pl. Succ. 13; G. Don, Gen. Syst. iv. 120. Orbea quinquenervia Haw. [family ASCLEPIADACEAE], Syn. Pl. Succ. 38. Orbea quinquenervis Loud. [family ASCLEPIADACEAE], Hort. Brit. 97; G. Don, Gen. Syst. iv. 119. Orbea bufonia Haw. [family ASCLEPIADACEAE], Suppl. Pl. Succ. 13 (not of Syn. Pl. Succ.).
Information
corolla-lobes with or without a microscopic ciliation, pale greenish-yellow or sulphur-yellow, with the spots irregularly scattered or in longitudinal rows, some of the lower occasionally confluent, but without or with very few slender purple-brown lines among them and the basal part usually not darker than elsewhere; outer corona-lobes variably bifid from 1/3– 2/3 of the way down, with the teeth varying from stout to slender and from parallel to widely diverging, with or more often without a minute tooth in the notch; inner corona-lobes with the horns subequal or the outer shorter than the inner, both clavate or the outer scarcely thickened at the apex. null
Distribution
COAST REGION Cape Div.; Lion Mountain and Table Mountain, Barkly, 3! Pillans, 100! and cultivated specimens!
Notes
The type specimen of Orbea quinquenervia, Haw., in Haworth's Herbarium at Oxford is identical with S. clypeata, J. Donn, and of Jacq. But between this and the plant figured by Jacquin as S. variegata I can find no valid distinction, the only character is that in typical S. clypeata the teeth of the outer corona are more divergent and sometimes, but not always, more slender than in S. variegata, Jacq., but I have seen flowers with every possible gradation between these two forms and also some in which the teeth are perfectly parallel on some of the lobes and very widely diverging on others of the same flower! The small tooth in the notch is also occasionally either present or absent in different flowers on the same plant or even in the same flower.
STAPELIA variegata N. E. Br. var. e, clypeata [family ASCLEPIADACEAE]
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