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Orbea lugardii
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Photo: Orty Bourquin
Modisa Wildlife Project,Grassland Game Farm, Ghanzi district.
Photo: Orty Bourquin
Modisa Wildlife Project,Grassland Game Farm, Ghanzi district.
Photo: Orty Bourquin
Modisa Wildlife Project,Grassland Game Farm, Ghanzi district.
Photo: Orty Bourquin
Modisa Wildlife Project,Grassland Game Farm, Ghanzi district.
Photo: Orty Bourquin
Modisa Wildlife Project,Grassland Game Farm, Ghanzi district.
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| Synonyms: |
Angolluma lugardii (N.E. Br.) Plowes Caralluma longicuspis N.E. Br. Caralluma lugardii N.E. Br. Ceropegia lugardiana Bruyns Pachycymbium lugardii (N.E. Br.) M.G. Gilbert |
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| Status: | Native |
| Description: |
Succulent perennial with stems up to 15 cm long, often forming several clumps connected by horizontal rhizomes. Inflorescences 2-6 per stem, situated towards the apex. Flowers mostly 1-3 per inflorescence, sometimes more, opening in succession or simultaneously, strongly and unpleasantly smelling. Corolla 30-45 mm in diameter, very deeply and narrowly lobed, smooth and pale green outside, finely papillate and variably coloured, usually with lobes paler than centre, yellow-green, yellow, red or brown with centre red or brown. Corona c. 6 mm tall with outer lobes 1-2 mm long, ascending, deeply bifid, red to purple-brown; inner lobes 4-5 mm long appressed to the backs of the anthers and then erect and sometimes diverging at the apices, reddish near the base and yellow above. |
| Notes: | |
| Derivation of specific name: | lugardii: after Major Edward James Lugard (1865-1957), British-born plant collector who collected extensively in Botswana. |
| Habitat: | Growing under bushes in dry areas of open scrub, often in shallow sandy soils overlying calcrete rock. |
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| Worldwide distribution: | Botswana, Namibia, South Africa. Possibly in southern Angola and western Zimbabwe. |
| Botswana distribution: | N,SW |
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| Spot characters: | Display spot characters for this species |
| Content last updated: | Monday 21 March 2016 |
| Literature: |
Albers, F. & Meve, U. (eds.) (2002). Asclepiadaceae Illustrated Handbook of Succulent Plants Springer-Verlag Page 195. (Includes a picture). Bruyns, P.V. (2002). Monograph of Orbea and Ballyanthus (Apocynaceae-Asclepiadoideae-Ceropegieae) Systematic Botany Monographs 63 Pages 51 - 54. (Includes a picture). Bruyns, P.V. (2005). Stapeliads of Southern Africa and Madagascar Volume I Umdaus Press, Hatfield, South Africa Pages 246 - 249. (Includes a picture). Golding, J.S. (ed.) (2002). Zimbabwe Plant Red Data List. Southern African Plant Red Data Lists. SABONET 14 Page 178. as Pachycymbium lugardii Goyder, D.J., Gilbert, M.G. & Venter, H.J.T. (2020). Apocynaceae (Part 2) Flora Zambesiaca 7(2) Page 214. Heath, A. & Heath, R. (2009). Field Guide to the Plants of Northern Botswana including the Okavango Delta Kew Publishing Page 115. (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 21. Plowes, D.C.H. (1993). The taxonomy of the Genera Pachycymbium Leach and Angolluma Munster (Stapelieae: Asclepiadaceae) Excelsa 16 Pages 120 - 122. as Angolluma lugardii (Includes a picture). Setshogo, M.P. (2005). Preliminary checklist of the plants of Botswana. Sabonet Report no. 37. Sabonet, Pretoria and Gaborone Page 28. |
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