Flowering Stapelia (gettliffei?)

[wbruan]

My Stapelia is flowering!

In my mind, the flowers look exactly like those of Stapelia grandiflora, apart from the fact that they are only a third of the size.

The nearest match I can find is Stapelia gettliffei, though I'm not sure that the flowers look 100% alike.

Could this be a variety of Stapelia grandiflora? The label only said Stapelia spp when I bought it as a cutting a while back.

[Saxicola]

It looks the most like S. grandiflora to me. Hard to really tell the size in the images but there can be variation in flower size due to environmental factors or just depending on the clone you have. I don't think it looks right for S. gettliffei. There is another species, Stapelia hirsuta ssp. gariepensis (also called just S. gariepensis, that is also similar. That one looks fairly similar in the identification book I have but online (where there are more pictures) it doesn't look as close.

[hlchang]

Can it be Stapelia unicornis?