Caralluma R. Br.

Tutin, T. G., Heywood, V. H., Burges, N. A., Moore, D. M., Valentine, D. H., Walters, S. M. & Webb, D. A., 1972, Flora Europaea. Volume 3. Diapensiacea to Myoporaceae, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press : 73

8. Caralluma R. Br. 1

Succulent, caespitose herbs with subterranean stolons. Stems glabrous, glaucous, 4-angled, the angles with opposite, scale-like caducous leaves above and toothed leaf-scars below. Inflorescence umbellate, subterminal. Corolla valvate in bud; lobes patent at anthesis. Corona double, with 10 segments, the outer 5 connate, 2-fid. Follicles fusiform, smooth.

Literature: A. White & B. L. Sloane, The Stapelieae 222-232. Pasadena, 1937.

Stem-faces ± flat; corolla 13-17 mm in diameter, yellow with purple bands 1. europaea Stem-faces sulcate; corolla 6-8 mm in diameter, brown 2. munbyana