Stapeliads of Southern Africa and Madagascar

Volume 1: Pages 1- 330. Volume 2: Pages iv + 331 - 606. Illustrated endpapers. Text and illustrations. Bound in cloth and with dust jackets. This important monograph deals with the southern representatives of the fascinating group of succulent plants known as stapeliads. It is the only monograph on the topic published in the last 68 years. The book is the product of 25 years of research by the author. It is lavishly illustrated with maps, line drawings and photographs. The volumes deal with all 182 species, which belong to twenty genera.

This group of highly succulent, more or less leafless plants belongs to the family Apocynaceae. Found exclusively in the Old World, they are widely distributed over the drier parts from the southern-most tip of Africa to the southern shores of Europe and eastwards to Arabia, India and Myanmar. Of the roughly 330 known species, 182 occur in southern Africa, and all but a handful of these are endemic to this region.