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Caralluma
Caralluma is a genus of flowering plants in the family Apocynaceae, consisting of about 30 species.
In 1795 William Roxburgh published the name Stapelia adscendens for a plant found in India. He commented that the name for the plant in the Telugu language was Car-allum and that the succulent branches are edible raw, though bitter and salty. The name Caralluma was coined by Robert Brown for a new genus in an article published in 1811. At the time he only described one species in the genus, the plant that he renamed Caralluma adscendens.
8 branches of this genus, most-observed first
Caralluma adscendens
speciesCaralluma adscendens
Caralluma fimbriata
speciesCaralluma fimbriata
Caralluma dalzielii
speciesCaralluma dalzielii
Caralluma petraea
speciesCaralluma petraea
Caralluma stalagmifera
speciesCaralluma stalagmifera
Caralluma attenuata
speciesCaralluma attenuata
Caralluma arachnoidea
speciesCaralluma arachnoidea
Caralluma wilhelmii
speciesCaralluma wilhelmii
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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In the stacks
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Every page naming Caralluma in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 124833.