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Dorstenia foetida
Section |
Kosaria |

Dorstenia foetida
photo courtesy P&S |
Type
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Subshrub |
Body |
Stem succulent, Pachycaul body, varies from pear
shaped to cigar length, branched or unbranched, some have smooth
green bodies, others are greyish and flake when growing |
Height |
Varies, from 3 cm to 40 cm. |
Leaves |
D. foetida has a wide variety in leaves. The
width, length, colour and ridges of the leaves vary very much,
from smooth green, oval shaped and 3 cm in length to 14 cm long,
grey-green and only 2 cm wide. |
Flowers |
D. foetida has a wide variety in flowers. Flowers
range from being 0,5 cm in diameter hanging in a crown near the
trunk just under the leaves to being 5 cm in diameter whilst
mounted on a flower stem of the same length. Also the length of
the appendages varies, from thick and even leafy to very thin
and up to 4 cm long. |
Reproduction |
Seed, plant is supposedly self fertile, seeds
form on the flower surface |
Area |
In Ethiopia, Somalia, Kenya, Tanzania, Yemen,
Saoudi Arabia and Oman;
In deciduous and succulent bushland on rock outcrops and on open
places;
At altitudes up to 2100 m. |
Taxonomical details |
D. foetida (Forsskal) Schweinfurth, Bull.
Herb. Boiss. 4 (App. 2): 120. 1986. Cosaria forskahlii J.
Gmelin (1791); D. arabica Hemsley (1899); D. crispa
Engler (1898); D. crispa var. lancifolia
Rendle (1915); D. crispa var. pachypoda Chiovenda
(1916); D. foetida subsp. obovata (A. Richard)
Friis (1983); D. foetida var. obovata (A. Richard)
Engler (1898); D. obovata A. Richard (1851); D.
philipsae Hooker f. (1899); D. radiata Lamarck
(1786); Kosaria foetida Forsskal (1775). |
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Dorstenia foetida, authors collection
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