Topic
Stapelia
About: Stapelia is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 23 publications have been published within this topic receiving 311 citations.
Papers
TL;DR: The use of exotic plants and similarities with the Xhosa healing culture show that the traditional system is dynamic and adaptive as mentioned in this paper, and that medicines to treat problems of the stomach, back, kidneys, bladder, as well as colds and other minor ailments have a high frequency.
161 citations
TL;DR: Sequence data from two non-coding molecular markers support the traditional tribal affiliation of the taxon-rich stem-succulent stapeliads and most of the few related, leafy genera, which form a monophyletic group.
Abstract: Representatives of nearly all genera of the taxon-rich stem-succulent stapeliads and most of the few related, leafy genera were analyzed. Sequence data from two non-coding molecular markers (ITS region of nrDNA and trnT-L and trnL-F spacers as well as the trnL intron of cpDNA) support the traditional tribal affiliation of the genera, which form a monophyletic group. This monophylum breaks into a basal Neoschumannia/Anisotoma/Riocreuxia/Sisyranthus nk;clade, from which the core Ceropegieae are derived. The four Ceropegia species included are not monophyletic, and their relationship to Brachystelma changes depending on the marker studied. The stem succulent taxa fall in a number of well supported, but unresolved clades, the most prominent being the predominantly southern African clade comprising Orbea, Stapelia and some other genera. The most derived taxa of NE Africa, Duvaliandra and White-sloanea, are basal to this southern African clade. The other clades comprise the more basal genera of stem-succulent stapeliads, including the members of the Caralluma complex. Of the 17 genera accepted by Plowes for the Caralluma complex, seven are recognized: Caralluma, Apteranthes, Australluma, Boucerosia, Caudanthera, Desmidorchis and Monolluma. New combinations are proposed in 15 cases; Caralluma adscendens var. geniculata is raised to specific rank. Anomalluma is reinstated, and Pseudolithos mccoyi is transfered to it. A broadened concept for Orbea (incl. Angolluma and Orbeopsis) is recognized, but Orbeanthus is kept separate. The monotypic Ballyanthus, recently separated from Orbea, is nested within Duvalia. Piaranthus (incl. Huerniopsis) is monophyletic. The bitypic Notechidnopsis is reduced to the type species, N. tessellata, while N. columnaris is transferred to a new genus, Richtersveldia.
92 citations
Patent•
4 Nov 2002TL;DR: A method of suppressing or curbing appetite and treating or preventing obesity comprising administering to a human or other mammal in need of such treatment an effective amount of plant material derived or derivable from plants of the genera Stapelia and Orbea as mentioned in this paper.
Abstract: A method of suppressing or curbing appetite and treating or preventing obesity comprising administering to a human or other mammal in need of such treatment an effective amount of plant material derived or derivable from plants of the genera Stapelia and Orbea.
44 citations
TL;DR: Florally, the stapeliads exhibit considerable plasticity and it is able to show that very differently shaped flowers as well as large and small flowers evolved repeatedly among closely related species.
33 citations
Journal Article•
TL;DR: The aqueous and butanol extracts of the two fresh whole plants were tested on carrageenan-induced rat paw oedema and kaolin-induced arthritis in rats and showed significant anti-inflammatory and antiarthritic activities.
12 citations
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