Caralluma europaea, (Guss.) N. E. Br.

Tutin, T. G., Heywood, V. H., Burges, N. A., Moore, D. M., Valentine, D. H., Walters, S. M. & Webb, D. A., 1972, Flora Europaea. Volume 3. Diapensiacea to Myoporaceae, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press : 73

1. C. europaea (Guss.) N. E. Br. , Gard. Chron. ser. 3, 12: 369 (1892)

( Apteranthes gussoneana Mikan ).

Stolons long. Stems 10-15 cm, ascending or procumbent, the faces more or less flat; teeth of leaf-scars less than 1 cm apart. Leaves sessile, orbicular, shortly acuminate. Inflorescences with 10 or more pedicellate flowers; pedicels 3-4 mm. Corolla 13-17 mm in diameter, rotate; lobes suborbicular, yellow with purple bands, more or less ciliate. Follicles c. 100 x 7 mm, slightly recurved, patent. Dry, rocky places. S.E. Spain; Linosa, Lampedusa. HsSi. (N. Africa.)

Plants from Linosa and Lampedusa differ from those from Spain in their slightly smaller corolla and appendaged corona.