Stapelia schinzii schinzii
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Pods
23 Sep 2008
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Seeds emerging from pod
30 Sep 2006
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Habit
20 Dec 2006
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Flowers about to open
20 Mar 2007
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Flower
21 Mar 2008
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Flower
20 Dec 2013
| Family: | Asclepiadaceae |
| Full name: | Stapelia schinzii A.Berger & Schltr. var. schinzii |
| ID status: | Fairly certain |
| Afrikaans common name(s): | - |
| English common name(s): | - |
| Synonym(s): | - |
| Status: | Endemic |
| Description: | The plants are large and robust and sometimes spread for up to 1 m, stems arising from a short horizontal base. The stems are mostly purple-mottled and up to 60 mm tall. Compared to the stems, the dark red to maroon flowers are relatively large (up to 120 mm in diameter). They have elongate corolla lobes, fringed with vibratile, purple, club-shaped hairs. (from Plantzafrica.com website) Strongly growing stems with green sheen and purple vibratile hairs on the margins of its pungently smelly flowers. (from www.asclepiad-exhibition.org) The S. schinzii var. angolensis differs from typical S. schinzii in that the stems are smaller, creeping, procumbent or hanging, and have a characteristic violet-purple colouration and aren't so distinctly 4-angled. In comparison typical S. schinzii has erect, dull green stems. The flowers are similar in both var. schinzii and angolensis, but the latter are smaller. |
| Link(s) |
African Plant Database
JSTOR Plant Science Kew Herbarium Catalogue BGBM Berlin-Dahlem - Virtual Herbarium Züricher Herbarien iNaturalist (Namibia / Alex Dreyer) iNaturalist (Namibia) iNaturalist (southern Africa) Flora of Zimbabwe Fleurs de notre Terre - Galerie Namibie Tree Atlas of Namibia |
| Content last updated: | 18 Apr 2024 |
