Stems ± 4-angled, fleshy, erect, from horizontal underground runners, silvery grey-green mottled with purple; tubercles rectangular in outline, tipped by rudimentary leaf, occasionally developing brownish callus
Inflorescences 3-10 per stem arising in upper half of stem, each with 1 or 2 flowers on short pedicels, ± without peduncle
Sepals ± ovate-lanceolate, often with scales within base
Corolla rotate, outside pale green, inside with white hairs; lobes, ± triangular, sometimes elongate, without marginal cilia
Corona 2-seriate, sometimes appearing 1-seriate; outer corona often united into a cup-shaped tube or forming pockets between inner lobes and margin variably divided into 5-20 teeth; inner corona lobes 5, subulate to oblong to club-shaped, sometimes much overtopping staminal column
Anthers 2-locular, horizontal on top of style head
Pollinia horizontal or ascending, with amber inner margin, usually compressed, with short caudicles and winged corpuscle
Follicles fusiform
Seeds ± oblong, convex on one side, concave on other, with apical tuft of hairs
x = 11 (aneuploids, polyploidy)
Nomenclature:
Caralluma R.Br.
Brown: 14 (1810)
Brown: 872 (1909)
White & Sloane: 151 (1937)
Gilbert: 10 (1990)
Austrolluma Plowes
Plowes: 54 (1995)
Distribution & Notes:
Global: Species 1: Caralluma peschii Nel, southern Africa
BROWN, R. 1810. On the Asclepiadeae, a natural order of plants separated from the Apocineae of Jussieu. Memoirs of the Wernerian Natural History Society 1
GILBERT, M.G. 1990. A review of Caralluma R.Br. and its segregates. Bradleya 8
PLOWES, D.C.H. 1995. A reclassification of Caralluma. Haseltonia 3
WHITE, A. & SLOANE, B.L. 1937. The Stapelieae 1, edn 2. Abbey San Encino Press, Pasadena, California
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