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stapelia Bot.|stəˈpiːlɪə|
[mod.L. (Linnæus 1737) f. name of Jan Bode van Stapel, a Dutch botanist (died 1636): see -ia.]
A South African genus of apocynaceous plants, remarkable for the fetid smell of the flowers, whence one species (S. hirsuta) is called Carrion-flower. Also, a plant of this genus.
1785Martyn Rousseau's Bot. xvi. (1794) 217 Stapelia..has a very large wheel-shaped corolla. 1834Penny Cycl. II. 440/2 The leafless succulent stapelias. 1860All Year Round No. 63. 295 The carrion-scented flowers of stapelias.
Comb.1842Florist's Jrnl. (1846) III. 76 Maxillaria stapeliflora, stapelia-flowered.
Hence staˈpeliad, a plant belonging to one of a group of closely related genera including Stapelia and others formerly considered part of it.
1933White & Sloane Stapelieae 1 The corolla of Stapeliads is usually fleshy. 1966E. Palmer Plains of Camdeboo xvi. 261 Among the great plant travellers are the Stapeliads of the family Asclepiadaceæ. 1977W. P. U. Jackson Wild Flowers Table Mt. 48/2 Orbea variegata..is the only Stapeliad in the Cape Peninsula. |