Stapelia getliffei R. Pott

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By rd from Hwali Business Centre to Manama Mission, Dibilishaba CL

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Synonyms:	Ceropegia gettliffei (R. Pott) Bruyns Gonostemon gettliffei (R. Pott) P.V. Heath
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Status:	Native
Description:	Procumbent succulent perennial. Stems 4-angled, decumbent-ascending, narrow at the base, green to greyish green, softly pubescent. Leaves conspicuous, erect or incurved on the tubercle teeth along the angles, densely pubescent, up to 11 mm. Flowers opening in succession on a shortly pedunculate cyme from the base of the stem. Corolla flat and wheel-shaped 50-80 mm in diameter, deeply lobed, limb with dense long, pale purple hairs. Lobes narrowly elliptic, acute, variable in colour from pale to deep purple along the margins and apex and finely wrinkled with transverse purple lines on creamy yellow, rarely all creamy yellow; margins ciliate with dense long purple hairs. Corona dark purple, outer lobes erect-spreading, c. 5 mm with short bristly hairs at the apex; inner lobes with an erect horn c. 12 mm.
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Derivation of specific name:	gettliffei: named after G.F.R. Gettliffe (1873-1948), water driller and farmer from the Transvaal, who collected the type
Habitat:	Growing in shade of bushes on alluvial soils in hot dry river valleys.
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Worldwide distribution:	Botswana, Mozambique, South Africa, Zimbabwe
Botswana distribution:	SE
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Literature:	Bruyns, P.V. (2005). Stapeliads of Southern Africa and Madagascar Volume II Umdaus Press, Hatfield, South Africa Pages 470 - 472. (Includes a picture). Chapano, C. & Mamuto, M. (2003). Plants of the Chimanimani District National Herbarium and Botanic Garden, Zimbabwe Page 52. As Stapelia gettliffei Golding, J.S. (ed.) (2002). Zimbabwe Plant Red Data List. Southern African Plant Red Data Lists. SABONET 14 Page 171. Goyder, D.J., Gilbert, M.G. & Venter, H.J.T. (2020). Apocynaceae (Part 2) Flora Zambesiaca 7(2) Page 195. Kirby, G. (2013). Wild Flowers of Southeast Botswana Struik Nature, Cape Town South Africa Page 370. (Includes a picture). Mapaura, A. & Timberlake, J. (eds) (2004). A checklist of Zimbabwean vascular plants Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 33 Sabonet, Pretoria and Harare Page 22. Setshogo, M.P. (2005). Preliminary checklist of the plants of Botswana. Sabonet Report no. 37. Sabonet, Pretoria and Gaborone Page 29.

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