![]() “Stapeliads of Southern Africa and Madagascar”. “Medicinal plants 2” PROTA, 2013ĥ) Doreen Court “Succulent Flora of Southern Africa” CRC Press, 01 June 2000ħ) Bruyns, P.V. ![]() National Assessment: Red List of South African Plants version 2015.1. “Plants of the Klein Karoo” Umdaus Press, Hatfield.ģ) Victor, J.E. Brown "Flora Capensis" Vol 4, page 518, (1909)Ģ) Vlok, J. The corona is variable, especially in the length of the erect tips of the inner lobes.īibliography: Major references and further lecturesġ) N. Inner corona-lobes 1-1.5 mm long, subulate or linear, acute to truncate, incumbent on the backs of the anthers and exceeding them, apically meeting and ascending in a curved manner over the style head with more or less connivent-erect tips and a short dorsal projection at the base, adnate to the outer corona and forming 5 of its teeth, dark purple-brown. Outer corona about as long as the staminal column, cupular, 10–15-bi- or trifid, appendages deltoid, glabrous, dark purple-brown. Corolla lobes purple to reddish-black, erectly spreading, 12-20 mm long, about 4-7 mm broad at the base, thence gradually tapering to a very acute apex, longitudinally folded outwards, with revolute margins, inside usually papillose, papillae with an apical horizontally curved thick hair. Corolla campanulate, 20-27 mm in diameter, glabrous and pale green outside, with the tips, margins and a stripe down the middle of the lobes and some dots on the tube very dark purple-brown inside minutely papillate-setulose on the lobes and upper part of the tube, rich velvety black-purple on the lobes, pale yellowish dotted with blackish purple in the tube, which is 3-6 mm long and as much in diameter. Sepals 2-4 mm long, ovate, acuminate, glabrous. Pedicels 2-3 mm long, glabrous, holding the flower horizontally. Inflorescence: Flowers in fascicles of 4–15 or more, along the grooves between the angles, usually near the stem tips in the upper 2/3 of the stem.įlowers: Flowers bisexual, regular, 5-merous. Leaves: Rudimentary, forming the tubercle tooth stipular denticles absent. Tubercles 5-20 mm long, conical, spreading, fused near base into the irregularly arranged angles, glabrous, light green, faintly glaucous, armed with stout, yellowish, hard-pointed acute spines 6-12 mm long, with the apical half of the spines brown. Branches, erect, glabrous, green, sometimes mottled with purple-brown, 15–50 cm tall and 18–36 cm thick, very variable, short and very compact, sometimes with robust tubercles, or slender-stemmed, irregularly or spirally 4–6-angled. Stems: Branching from a single, central stem, erect from base. The inner lobes are shortly erect, incumbent on the anthers, and exceed them.The odour of the flowers is extremely disagreeable.ĭerivation of specific name: The name refers to the stout tubercles with brown apices (From Lat. The corona is stipitate (held on a stalk), dark purple-brown, The outer lobes are erect, bifid, fused to the bases of the inner lobes that form pouches. The corolla is 20-27 mm across, the tube is yellow and purple-spotted. Bunches of 3-15 velvety purple-brown flowers appears in autumn in the upper 2/3 of the stem, and open simultaneously, but are seldom seen in culture. The leaves are transmuted into hard thorns. ![]() It became a part of South Africa in 1994, along with the other nine Homelands.Description: Quaqua mammillaris is a much-branched, robust succulent shrub, up to 50 cm high, and 50-70 cm across, branched in a bushy manner which root from the primary stem only. The South African government granted this Homeland self-government on 1 November 1974. The area had originally been the home of the Bakwena and Batlokoa groups and when they united in 1969 the region was called KwaKwa, which changed to Quaqua in the same year. Quaqua, or Qwaqwa, means "whiter than white" in the San language and referred to the Sandstone Hills of the Drakensberg Mountains, where the Homeland was situated. The country's main income came from these migrant workers. The land in the region was Mountainous and unsuitable for cultivation so most of the men had to leave their homes to become part of the migrant labour force. The population of the homeland increased as more people were evicted from the Orange Free State, as a result of the Natives Land Act. ![]() By 1960 there were 20 000 residents, which increased to 300 000 in 1980 and more than a million in 1990. The capital was Phuthaditjhaba and initially about 180 000 Seosotho speaking Basotho people lived within its borders. It was only 655 square kilometres big and bordered on Lesotho. Quaqua, or Qwaqwa, was a homeland created for the Southern Sotho people from a reserve in the Orange Free State (OFS) that had been granted to the followers of a relative of Moshoeshoe. ![]()
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