Huernia namaquensis spotless

    Huernia namaquensis spotless
    Author: Ivan Lätti
    Photographer: Judd Kirkel Welwitch

    This Huernia namaquensis plant is producing flowers lacking the maroon to purple spots often seen on the corollas. Tiny, fleshy papillae cover the whitish inner surface of the corolla, both on the spreading and recurving lobes and inside the cup or tube where the small purple and yellow outer and inner coronas await the pollinators. Outer corolla surfaces are smooth and dull rose-pink on the small buds, becoming gradually paler as they approach opening (Williamson, 2010; White and Sloane, 1937).

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