| NOUN | plant | genus Stapelia | genus of foul-smelling plants resembling cacti |
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| Meaning | genus of foul-smelling plants resembling cacti; found from Africa to East India. | |
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| Member of | Asclepiadaceae, family Asclepiadaceae, milkweed family | widely distributed family of herbs and shrubs of the order Gentianales |
| Members | Stapelias asterias | stapelia of Cape Province having mostly dark red-brown flowers with flat starlike corollas |
| stapelia, carrion flower, starfish flower | Any of various plants of the genus Stapelia having succulent leafless toothed stems resembling cacti and large foul-smelling (often star-shaped) flowers | |
| Broader | dicot genus, magnoliopsid genus | genus of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination |
| Spanish | genus stapelia | |
| Catalan | genus stapelia | |
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