» genus stapelia

Noun (1 meaning)

1. genus of foul-smelling plants resembling cacti; found from Africa to East India.

genus Stapelia

genus stapelia is a type of:
  • dicot genus, magnoliopsid genus (noun) - genus of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination
genus stapelia is a member of:
members of genus stapelia:
  • Stapelias asterias (noun) - stapelia of Cape Province having mostly dark red-brown flowers with flat starlike corollas
  • stapelia, carrion flower, starfish flower (noun) - any of various plants of the genus Stapelia having succulent leafless toothed stems resembling cacti and large foul-smelling (often star-shaped) flowers