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STAPELIA variegata N. E. Br. var. k, retusa [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. k, retusa [family ASCLEPIADACEAE]
STAPELIA retusa Schultes [family ASCLEPIADACEAE], Syst. Veg. vi. 41; Decne in DC. Prodr. viii. 660; Schlechter in Journ. Bot. 1898, 483.
Orbea retusa Haw. [family ASCLEPIADACEAE], Syn. Pl. Succ. 41; G. Don, Gen. Syst. iv. 120.
Information
corolla flat on the back, coloured much as in var. bufonia but less darkly at the base of the lobes and the spots on the pentagonal annulus usually fewer, larger and more irregular in form; outer corona-lobes rather long, linear or tapering from base to apex, with a very small notch or very shortly bifid or sometimes very minutely 3-toothed at the tips, pale yellowish-green, marked at the tips and down the centre with dots or very minute specks of purple-brown and a rather paler square spot at the base; both horns of the inner corona-lobes clavate, the outer rather shorter than the inner, ascending-spreading; otherwise as in the type. null
Distribution
SOUTH AFRICA without locality, cultivated specimens!
Notes
[S. retusa (Rüst in Monatsschr. Kakt. vi. 37, not of Schultes) is a hybrid form with a corolla 2 1/2 in. in diam., pale yellow, rather sparsely covered with dark brownish-crimson spots more or less arranged in irregular longitudinal rows on the lobes and confluent on the disk in an irregular dark ring around the annulus; lobes somewhat elongated ovate, acuminate, minutely ciliate with pale yellowish or white hairs; annulus small, circular, rather brighter than the lobes with scattered round spots as large as those on the lobes; outer corona-lobes extending to or beyond the margin of the annulus, deeply bifid, with diverging teeth, pale yellow, with a purple-brown stripe down the basal part and minute dots on the apical half; outer horn of inner corona-lobes somewhat spreading.]
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. k, retusa [family ASCLEPIADACEAE]
STAPELIA retusa Schultes [family ASCLEPIADACEAE], Syst. Veg. vi. 41; Decne in DC. Prodr. viii. 660; Schlechter in Journ. Bot. 1898, 483.
Orbea retusa Haw. [family ASCLEPIADACEAE], Syn. Pl. Succ. 41; G. Don, Gen. Syst. iv. 120.
Information
corolla flat on the back, coloured much as in var. bufonia but less darkly at the base of the lobes and the spots on the pentagonal annulus usually fewer, larger and more irregular in form; outer corona-lobes rather long, linear or tapering from base to apex, with a very small notch or very shortly bifid or sometimes very minutely 3-toothed at the tips, pale yellowish-green, marked at the tips and down the centre with dots or very minute specks of purple-brown and a rather paler square spot at the base; both horns of the inner corona-lobes clavate, the outer rather shorter than the inner, ascending-spreading; otherwise as in the type. null
Distribution
SOUTH AFRICA without locality, cultivated specimens!
Notes
[S. retusa (Rüst in Monatsschr. Kakt. vi. 37, not of Schultes) is a hybrid form with a corolla 2 1/2 in. in diam., pale yellow, rather sparsely covered with dark brownish-crimson spots more or less arranged in irregular longitudinal rows on the lobes and confluent on the disk in an irregular dark ring around the annulus; lobes somewhat elongated ovate, acuminate, minutely ciliate with pale yellowish or white hairs; annulus small, circular, rather brighter than the lobes with scattered round spots as large as those on the lobes; outer corona-lobes extending to or beyond the margin of the annulus, deeply bifid, with diverging teeth, pale yellow, with a purple-brown stripe down the basal part and minute dots on the apical half; outer horn of inner corona-lobes somewhat spreading.]
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. k, retusa [family ASCLEPIADACEAE]
STAPELIA retusa Schultes [family ASCLEPIADACEAE], Syst. Veg. vi. 41; Decne in DC. Prodr. viii. 660; Schlechter in Journ. Bot. 1898, 483.
Orbea retusa Haw. [family ASCLEPIADACEAE], Syn. Pl. Succ. 41; G. Don, Gen. Syst. iv. 120.
Information
corolla flat on the back, coloured much as in var. bufonia but less darkly at the base of the lobes and the spots on the pentagonal annulus usually fewer, larger and more irregular in form; outer corona-lobes rather long, linear or tapering from base to apex, with a very small notch or very shortly bifid or sometimes very minutely 3-toothed at the tips, pale yellowish-green, marked at the tips and down the centre with dots or very minute specks of purple-brown and a rather paler square spot at the base; both horns of the inner corona-lobes clavate, the outer rather shorter than the inner, ascending-spreading; otherwise as in the type. null
Distribution
SOUTH AFRICA without locality, cultivated specimens!
Notes
[S. retusa (Rüst in Monatsschr. Kakt. vi. 37, not of Schultes) is a hybrid form with a corolla 2 1/2 in. in diam., pale yellow, rather sparsely covered with dark brownish-crimson spots more or less arranged in irregular longitudinal rows on the lobes and confluent on the disk in an irregular dark ring around the annulus; lobes somewhat elongated ovate, acuminate, minutely ciliate with pale yellowish or white hairs; annulus small, circular, rather brighter than the lobes with scattered round spots as large as those on the lobes; outer corona-lobes extending to or beyond the margin of the annulus, deeply bifid, with diverging teeth, pale yellow, with a purple-brown stripe down the basal part and minute dots on the apical half; outer horn of inner corona-lobes somewhat spreading.]
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