Orbea

Life-forms

Classification System: APG IV

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Plantae
Cladus: Angiosperms
Cladus: Eudicots
Cladus: Core eudicots
Cladus: Asterids
Cladus: Lamiids
Ordo: Gentianales

Familia: Apocynaceae
Subfamilia: Asclepiadoideae
Tribus: Ceropegieae
Subtribus: Stapeliinae
Genus: Orbea
Sectiones: (3)
O. sect. Codonidium – O. sect. Orbea – O. sect. Stultitia
Species overview: (60)
O. abayensis – O. albocastanea – O. araysiana – O. baldratii – O. carnosa – O. caudata – O. chrysostephana – O. ciliata – O. circes – O. conjuncta – O. cooperi – O. cucullata – O. decaisneana – O. deflersiana – O. denboefii – O. distincta – O. dummeri – O. fenestrata – O. gemugofana – O. gerstneri – O. gilbertii – O. halipedicola – O. hardyi – O. huernioides – O. huillensis – O. knobelii – O. laikipiensis – O. laticorona – O. longidens – O. lugardii – O. luntii – O. lutea – O. maculata – O. mcloughlinii – O. melanantha – O. miscella – O. namaquensis – O. nardii – O. paradoxa – O. parviloba – O. pulchella – O. rogersii – O. sacculata – O. schweinfurthii – O. semitubiflora – O. semota – O. sprengeri – O. subterranea – O. taitica – O. tapscottii – O. tubiformis – O. ubomboensis – O. umbracula – O. valida – O. variegata – O. verrucosa – O. vibratilis – O. wilsonii – O. wissmannii – O. woodii
Name

Orbea Haw., Syn. Pl. Succ. 37. 812.

Type species: Orbea variegata (L.) Haw.

Synonymy

Heterotypic
Angolluma Munster, Cact. Succ. J. New South Wales 17: 63–65. 1990; L.E.Newton, Cact. Succ. J. (U.S.) 65:196-199. 1993.
Type species: Angolluma decaisneana (Lem.) L.E.Newton
Diplocyatha N.E.Br., J. Linn. Soc., Bot. 17: 167. 1878.
Stapelia subg. Diplocyatha (N.E.Br.) P.V.Heath, Calyx 3(1): 37. 1993.
Type species: Diplocyatha ciliata (Thunb.) N.E.Br.
Orbeanthus L.C.Leach, Excelsa Taxonomic Series 1: 71–72. 1978) Synonymy not accepted by all authorities.
Type species: Orbeanthus conjunctus (A.C.White & B.Sloane) L.C.Leach
Orbeopsis L.C.Leach, Excelsa Taxonomic Series 1: 61. 1978.
Type species: Orbeopsis lutea (N.E.Br.) L.C.Leach
Pachycymbium L.C.Leach, Excelsa Taxonomic Series 1: 69. 1978.
Type species: Pachycymbium keithii (R.A.Dyer) L.C.Leach

Distribution
Native distribution areas:

Africa
Northern Africa
Algeria, Morocco.
West Tropical Africa
Burkina, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Senegal.
West-Central Tropical Africa
Burundi, Rwanda, Zaïre.
Northeast Tropical Africa
Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Somalia, Sudan.
East Tropical Africa
Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda.
South Tropical Africa
Angola, Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe.
Southern Africa
Botswana, Cape Provinces, Caprivi Strip, Namibia, KwaZulu-Natal, Free State, Swaziland, Northern Provinces.
Asia-Temperate
Arabian Peninsula
Oman, Saudi Arabia, Yemen.

References: Brummitt, R.K. 2001. TDWG – World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, 2nd Edition
References
Primary references

Haworth, A.H. 1812. Syn. Pl. Succ. 37.

Additional references

Bensusan, K. 2009. Taxonomy and conservation status of Moroccan Stapeliads. Bulletin de l’Institut Scientifique, Rabat, section Sciences de la Vie 31 (2): 67–77 PDF.

Links

Govaerts, R. et al. 2018. Orbea in World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published on the internet. Accessed: 2018 October 4. Reference page.
International Plant Names Index. 2018. Orbea. Published online. Accessed: 4 October 2018.
Tropicos.org 2018. Orbea. Missouri Botanical Garden. Published on the internet. Accessed: 2018 October 4.

Vernacular names

Ελληνικά: Κυκλία
svenska: Ordenstjärnesläktet
Tiếng Việt: Orbeopsis

Orbea is a genus of flowering plants of the family Apocynaceae, first described as a genus in 1812.[1] It is native to Africa.[2][3]

Species[4]

Orbea abayensis (M.G. Gilbert) Bruyns - Ethiopia
Orbea ciliata (Thunb.) L.C. Leach - South Africa
Orbea cooperi (N.E.Br.) L.C.Leach - South Africa
Orbea denboefii (Lavranos) Bruyns - Kenya
Orbea distincta (E.A. Bruce) Bruyns - Tanzania
Orbea dummeri (N.E. Br.) Bruyns - Uganda, Ethiopia
Orbea halipedicola L.C. Leach - Mozambique
Orbea huillensis (Hiern) Bruyns - tropical Africa
Orbea irrorata (Masson) L.C. Leach - South Africa
Orbea lepida (Jacq.) Haw. - South Africa
Orbea longidens (N.E. Br.) L.C. Leach - Mozambique
Orbea lutea (N.E. Br.) Bruyns - South Africa
Orbea macloughlinii (Verdc.) L.C. Leach
Orbea maculata (N.E. Br.) L.C. Leach - tropical Africa
Orbea melanantha (Schltr.) Bruyns - South Africa
Orbea namaquensis (N.E. Br.) L.C. Leach - South Africa, Namibia
Orbea paradoxa (Verd.) L.C. Leach - KwaZulu-Natal
Orbea prognatha (P.R.O. Bally) L.C. Leach - Somalia
Orbea pulchella (Masson) L.C. Leach - South Africa
Orbea rangeana (Dinter & A. Berger) L.C. Leach - Great Namaqualand in Namibia
Orbea schweinfurthii (A. Berger) Bruyns - tropical Africa
Orbea semota (N.E. Br.) L.C. Leach - Tanzania
Orbea speciosa L.C. Leach - KwaZulu-Natal
Orbea taitica Bruyns - Kenya
Orbea tapscottii (Verd.) L.C.Leach - Botswana
Orbea umbracula (M.D. Hend.) L.C. Leach - Zimbabwe
Orbea variegata (L.) Haw. - South Africa
Orbea verrucosa (Masson) L.C. Leach - South Africa
Orbea wendlandiana (Schult.) G. Don - South Africa
Orbea woodii (N.E. Br.) L.C. Leach - KwaZulu-Natal

Formerly included[4]

moved to other genera (Pachycymbium, Stisseria)

O. anguinea now Stisseria anguina
O. bisulca now Stisseria bisulca
O. bufonia now Stisseria bufonia
O. clypeata now Stisseria clypeata
O. conspurcata now Stisseria conspurcata
O. curtisii now Stisseria curtisii
O. decaisneana now Pachycymbium decaisneanum
O. decora now Stisseria decora
O. maculosa now Stisseria maculosa
O. marginata now Stisseria marginata
O. marmorata now Stisseria marmorata
O. mixta now Stisseria mixta
O. mutabilis now Stisseria mutabilis
O. normalis now Stisseria normalis
O. orbicularis now Stisseria orbicularis
O. picta now Stisseria picta
O. planiflora now Stisseria planiflora
O. retusa now Stisseria retusa
O. rugosa now Stisseria rugosa
O. woodfordiana now Stisseria woodfordiana

References

Haworth, Adrian Hardy. 1812. Synopsis plantarum succulentarum 37.
Gibbs Russell, G. E., W. G. M. Welman, E. Retief, K. L. Immelman, G. Germishuizen, B. J. Pienaar, M. Van Wyk & A. Nicholas. 1987. List of species of southern African plants. Memoirs of the Botanical Survey of South Africa 2(1–2): 1–152(pt. 1), 1–270(pt. 2).
Leach, Leslie Charles. 1975. Kirkia 10(1): 289-291.
The Plant List, genus Orbea