Species Stapelia hirsuta
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Etymology of Stapelia:
For Johannes Bodaeus van Stapel (1602–1636), Dutch physician and botanist. He received a medical degree in 1625 from Leiden University and studied botany under Adolphus Vorstius. His life’s ambition was to publish an annotated edition of the botanical works of Theophrastus (370–287 BCE), but he died before the book was finished. The content was edited and published by his father as Theophrasti Eresii de Historia Plantarum in 1644. One of the plants in the book, drawn by Justus Heurnius (1587–1653) from his brief stay at the Cape in 1624, was Fritillaria crassa (Stapelia variegata), now known as Orbea variegata. The genus was named Stapelia in 1753 by Linnaeus in his Species Plantarum.
Etymology of hirsuta:
From the Latin hirsutus = ‘hairy’
Scientific name:
Stapelia hirsuta L.
Common names:
Synonym of:
Unknown
Long etymology:
Protologue:
Sp. Pl. 1: 217 (1753)
Synonym status:
Year published:
1753
Leafless, glabrous or finely hairy succulent with erect, 4-angled stems 10--20 mm diam. forming dense clumps, 10--25 cm. Flowers 70--110 mm diam., red-purple, glabrous or softly hairy around the corona and along the petal margins. Mar.--Oct. Stony, often sandstone slopes, NW, SW, KM, LB (Karoo and Porterville to Humansdorp).
Observations of Taxon
Stapelia hirsuta
Name of observer:
Yvette van Wijk (Yvette)
Date observed:
09/11/2008 - 1:37am
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