
actual size: 4-5 cm
Stapelianthus madagascariensis Choux and White
DESCRIPTION: low running succulent with very mottled stems that can form large compact clumps and produce small cream-coloured, bell-like, flowers with red spots and white spiny papillae, these are produced in clusters near the stem-bases.
Stems: Procumbent to ascending, 6-8 mm thick, rooting at base, leaf tubercles (podaria) in 5-6 spirals, with tiny apical, greyish-green to, brownish dark-red mottled apex with small, acute-triangular, deciduous non-spiny leaflet.
DISTRIBUTION: Madagascar
