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STAPELIA variegata N. E. Br. var. f, mixta [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. f, mixta [family ASCLEPIADACEAE] STAPELIA mixta Masson [family ASCLEPIADACEAE], Stap. 23, t. 38; Willd. Sp. Pl. i. 1292; Pers. Syn. Pl. i. 280; Poir. Encycl. vii. 388; R. Br. in Mem. Wern. Soc. i. 25; Schultes, Syst. Veg. vi. 36; Decne in DC. Prodr. viii. 658. Orbea mixta Haw. [family ASCLEPIADACEAE], Syn. Pl. Succ. 38; Schultes, Syst. Veg. vi. 834; G. Don, Gen. Syst. iv. 119.
Information
corolla 2 1/2–3 3/4 in. in diam., pale greenish-yellow, paler on the annulus, uniformly covered on the lobes with rather small purple-brown spots more or less connected on the basal half or beyond by slender purple-brown lines between the rugosities or subconfluent, and on the annulus with smaller spots or dots; disk flat or nearly so, annulus varying from nearly circular to distinctly pentagonal or somewhat 10-crenate, with a rather broad flattish-convex rim; lobes with or without a ciliation of minute thick white hairs; outer corona-lobes linear-oblong, with parallel sides, variably 2–3-toothed at the apex, yellow, dotted with purple-brown on the apical half, some of the dots extending down the margins and others down the centre to a larger spot at the base; inner corona-lobes with horns of equal length, the outer ascending; otherwise as in the type. null
Distribution
COAST REGION Robertson Div.; near Robertson, Pillans, 124!SOUTH AFRICA without locality, Masson.
Notes
Masson's figure of this plant is very badly coloured, as he represents the ground-colour of the corolla-lobes as purple-brown marked with irregular yellow lines and describes them as “purple, with transverse yellow rugosities;” this is really the case, but at the same time the effect produced is that the ground colour is yellow, spotted and lined with purple-brown. [S. mixta and var. pentagona, Rüst in Monatsschr. Kakt. vi. 39, seem to be hybrid forms of var. bufonia, with a large annulus, but smaller flowers than in typical var. mixta; the lobes are coloured as in the lighter forms of var. bufonia and the annulus is of a pale sulphur colour thinly dotted with purple brown on the rim and densely in the cup, very distinctly pentagonal in var. pentagona; outer corona-lobes entire to bifid, with short parallel or diverging teeth, pale yellow, dotted with purple-brown on the apical part and down the centre, with (or in var. pentagona without) a basal spot; outer horn of the inner corona-lobes ascending.]

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. f, mixta [family ASCLEPIADACEAE] STAPELIA mixta Masson [family ASCLEPIADACEAE], Stap. 23, t. 38; Willd. Sp. Pl. i. 1292; Pers. Syn. Pl. i. 280; Poir. Encycl. vii. 388; R. Br. in Mem. Wern. Soc. i. 25; Schultes, Syst. Veg. vi. 36; Decne in DC. Prodr. viii. 658. Orbea mixta Haw. [family ASCLEPIADACEAE], Syn. Pl. Succ. 38; Schultes, Syst. Veg. vi. 834; G. Don, Gen. Syst. iv. 119.
Information
corolla 2 1/2–3 3/4 in. in diam., pale greenish-yellow, paler on the annulus, uniformly covered on the lobes with rather small purple-brown spots more or less connected on the basal half or beyond by slender purple-brown lines between the rugosities or subconfluent, and on the annulus with smaller spots or dots; disk flat or nearly so, annulus varying from nearly circular to distinctly pentagonal or somewhat 10-crenate, with a rather broad flattish-convex rim; lobes with or without a ciliation of minute thick white hairs; outer corona-lobes linear-oblong, with parallel sides, variably 2–3-toothed at the apex, yellow, dotted with purple-brown on the apical half, some of the dots extending down the margins and others down the centre to a larger spot at the base; inner corona-lobes with horns of equal length, the outer ascending; otherwise as in the type. null
Distribution
COAST REGION Robertson Div.; near Robertson, Pillans, 124!SOUTH AFRICA without locality, Masson.
Notes
Masson's figure of this plant is very badly coloured, as he represents the ground-colour of the corolla-lobes as purple-brown marked with irregular yellow lines and describes them as “purple, with transverse yellow rugosities;” this is really the case, but at the same time the effect produced is that the ground colour is yellow, spotted and lined with purple-brown. [S. mixta and var. pentagona, Rüst in Monatsschr. Kakt. vi. 39, seem to be hybrid forms of var. bufonia, with a large annulus, but smaller flowers than in typical var. mixta; the lobes are coloured as in the lighter forms of var. bufonia and the annulus is of a pale sulphur colour thinly dotted with purple brown on the rim and densely in the cup, very distinctly pentagonal in var. pentagona; outer corona-lobes entire to bifid, with short parallel or diverging teeth, pale yellow, dotted with purple-brown on the apical part and down the centre, with (or in var. pentagona without) a basal spot; outer horn of the inner corona-lobes ascending.]

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. f, mixta [family ASCLEPIADACEAE] STAPELIA mixta Masson [family ASCLEPIADACEAE], Stap. 23, t. 38; Willd. Sp. Pl. i. 1292; Pers. Syn. Pl. i. 280; Poir. Encycl. vii. 388; R. Br. in Mem. Wern. Soc. i. 25; Schultes, Syst. Veg. vi. 36; Decne in DC. Prodr. viii. 658. Orbea mixta Haw. [family ASCLEPIADACEAE], Syn. Pl. Succ. 38; Schultes, Syst. Veg. vi. 834; G. Don, Gen. Syst. iv. 119.
Information
corolla 2 1/2–3 3/4 in. in diam., pale greenish-yellow, paler on the annulus, uniformly covered on the lobes with rather small purple-brown spots more or less connected on the basal half or beyond by slender purple-brown lines between the rugosities or subconfluent, and on the annulus with smaller spots or dots; disk flat or nearly so, annulus varying from nearly circular to distinctly pentagonal or somewhat 10-crenate, with a rather broad flattish-convex rim; lobes with or without a ciliation of minute thick white hairs; outer corona-lobes linear-oblong, with parallel sides, variably 2–3-toothed at the apex, yellow, dotted with purple-brown on the apical half, some of the dots extending down the margins and others down the centre to a larger spot at the base; inner corona-lobes with horns of equal length, the outer ascending; otherwise as in the type. null
Distribution
COAST REGION Robertson Div.; near Robertson, Pillans, 124!SOUTH AFRICA without locality, Masson.
Notes
Masson's figure of this plant is very badly coloured, as he represents the ground-colour of the corolla-lobes as purple-brown marked with irregular yellow lines and describes them as “purple, with transverse yellow rugosities;” this is really the case, but at the same time the effect produced is that the ground colour is yellow, spotted and lined with purple-brown. [S. mixta and var. pentagona, Rüst in Monatsschr. Kakt. vi. 39, seem to be hybrid forms of var. bufonia, with a large annulus, but smaller flowers than in typical var. mixta; the lobes are coloured as in the lighter forms of var. bufonia and the annulus is of a pale sulphur colour thinly dotted with purple brown on the rim and densely in the cup, very distinctly pentagonal in var. pentagona; outer corona-lobes entire to bifid, with short parallel or diverging teeth, pale yellow, dotted with purple-brown on the apical part and down the centre, with (or in var. pentagona without) a basal spot; outer horn of the inner corona-lobes ascending.]
STAPELIA variegata N. E. Br. var. f, mixta [family ASCLEPIADACEAE]
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