Stapeliads are succulents with beautiful flowers with a smell that does not match their beauty at all. Distributed mainly in Africa, a few species can also be found in Europe, and quite a few in Asia. Their flowers are unique, not only due to the bizarre beauty, but also due to the unusual reproductive structures. […]

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The group of plants known collectively as the stapeliads are stem-succulents which belong to the expanded concept of the family Apocynaceae. Formerly they were treated in the family Asclepiadaceae. However, since this has been repeatedly shown to be nested within the Apocynaceae, they are now placed within the tribe Ceropegieae of the subfamily Asclepiadoideae of […]

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