Stapelia

Accepted species 37 Documented here 5 Family Apocynaceae

Accepted species 37 in this genus

Every accepted species in the genus is listed. A name links to its page when we hold at least three commercially licensed photographs of it. Where we do not, the row shows how many we actually found, which is usually none.

SpeciesAuthority Usable photographsPage
Stapelia gigantea N.E.Br. 98 documented
Stapelia hirsuta L. 26 documented
Stapelia grandiflora Masson 9 documented
Stapelia kwebensis N.E.Br. 6 documented
Stapelia rufa Masson 6 documented
Stapelia cedrimontana Frandsen 2 below the evidence gate
Stapelia clavicorona I.Verd. 2 below the evidence gate
Stapelia olivacea N.E.Br. 2 below the evidence gate
Stapelia surrecta N.E.Br. 2 below the evidence gate
Stapelia acuminata Masson 1 below the evidence gate
Stapelia × prostratiflora (L.C.Leach) Z.H.Feng 0 below the evidence gate
Stapelia arenosa C.A.Lückh. 0 below the evidence gate
Stapelia baylissii L.C.Leach 0 below the evidence gate
Stapelia concinna Masson 0 below the evidence gate
Stapelia deflexa hort. ex Haw. 0 below the evidence gate
Stapelia divaricata Masson 0 below the evidence gate
Stapelia engleriana Schltr. 0 below the evidence gate
Stapelia erectiflora N.E.Br. 0 below the evidence gate
Stapelia flavopurpurea Marloth 0 below the evidence gate
Stapelia gettleffii R.Pott 0 below the evidence gate
Stapelia glanduliflora Masson 0 below the evidence gate
Stapelia leendertziae N.E.Br. 0 below the evidence gate
Stapelia maccabeana A.C.White & B.Sloane 0 below the evidence gate
Stapelia meintjiesii I.Verd. 0 below the evidence gate
Stapelia nobilis N.E.Br. ex Hook.f. 0 below the evidence gate
Stapelia obducta L.C.Leach 0 below the evidence gate
Stapelia paniculata Willd. 0 below the evidence gate
Stapelia parvula Kers 0 below the evidence gate
Stapelia pearsonii N.E.Br. 0 below the evidence gate
Stapelia pillansii N.E.Br. 0 below the evidence gate
Stapelia plantii McKen ex N.E.Br. 0 below the evidence gate
Stapelia remota R.A.Dyer 0 below the evidence gate
Stapelia rubiginosa Nel 0 below the evidence gate
Stapelia schinzii A.Berger & Schltr. 0 below the evidence gate
Stapelia similis N.E.Br. 0 below the evidence gate
Stapelia unicornis C.A.Lückh. 0 below the evidence gate
Stapelia villetiae C.A.Lückh. 0 below the evidence gate

Why some species have no pagethe gate

This site is commercial, so it can only publish photographs licensed for commercial use. Roughly three quarters of the photographs on iNaturalist are CC BY-NC, which excludes them. A species needs at least three usable photographs before we will build it a page, because a page with one picture and no traits tells you nothing you could not get from a search result, and generating hundreds of thousands of those is precisely the practice that got the previous version of this site deleted.

So the species above without a link are not errors and they are not omissions. They are real, accepted plants that we cannot yet document to the standard we hold ourselves to, and the count in the photographs column is exactly how far short we fall.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. Accepted names, authorities, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. Photograph counts, restricted to CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA. Retrieved 2026-06-27.