| Author: | Ernst Heinrich Friedrich Meyer, 1838 |
| Family: |
ASCLEPIADACEAE* |
| Origin: |
Botswana,
Eswatini, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa |
| Soil: |
Mix |
| Water:
|
Medium |
| Sun: |
Medium |
| Thickness: |
12
Centimetres |
| Height: |
50
Centimetres |
| Flower:
|
Greenish
White |
| Propagate: |
Seeds/? |
| Names:
|
Bird Case
Brachystelma |
| Synonyms: |
Might
be:
Ceropegia circinata, Bruyns, 2017.
Dichaelia circinata, Friedrich Richard Rudolf Schlechter
1896.
Fockea augustifolia, Karl Moritz Schumann 1894.
Brachystelma ovatum, Daniel Oliver, 1870 = Dichaelia
ovata, Schltr., 1897.
Brachystelma bolusii, N.E.Br.
Brachystelma cinereum, N.E.Br.
Brachystelma circinatum, E.Mey.
Brachystelma commixtum, N.E.Br.
Brachystelma filiforme, Harv.
Brachystelma galpinii, N.E.Br.
Brachystelma ovatum, Oliv.
Brachystelma pallidum, N.E.Br.
Brachystelma undulatum, N.E.Br.
Brachystelma zeyheri, N.E.Br.
Dichaelia bolusii, Schltr.
Dichaelia brachylepis, Schltr.
Dichaelia cinerea, Schltr.
Dichaelia commixta, Schltr.
Dichaelia filiformis, Schltr.
Dichaelia forcipata, Schltr.
Dichaelia galpinii, Schltr.
Dichaelia macra, Schltr.
Dichaelia microphylla, S.Moore.
Dichaelia pallida, Schltr.
Dichaelia undulata, Schltr.
Dichaelia zeyheri, Schltr. |
This member of the Asclepiadaceae* family was first described by
Ernst Heinrich
Friedrich Meyer in 1838,
and later in 1896 by Friedrich Richard Rudolf Schlechter as
Dichaelia circinata.
It is found both in
Botswana, Eswatini, Mozambique, Namibia and South Africa. It preferring a
well-drained soil with some water and some sun. The caudex
will get ten centimetres in diameter, and the branches 50
centimetres long. It can only be reproduced by seeds. The flowers are
greenish white.
The genera name from Greek; brachys
meaning 'short', and stelma means 'crown, garland, wreath'; alluding
to the short staminal corona of some species. The
species name referring to the (not so) round leaves.
*)Accordantly to the latest taxonomic system; APG IV 2016, Asclepiadaceae is now part of the Apocynaceae. |
