STAPELIA


Meaning of STAPELIA in English

noun Etymology: New Latin, from J. B. van Stapel died 1636 Dutch botanist Date: 1776 any of a genus ( Stapelia ) of chiefly African perennial herbs of the milkweed family with succulent typically leafless toothed stems and showy but usually putrid-smelling star-shaped flowers

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