During a botanical expedition to southern Angola arranged by Brian Huntley, a species of Adenia Forssk. growing in dry savanna grassland was collected on 21 January 2010 from the top of Iona Peak on the southern border of Angola (Van Jaarsveld 2010a) (Figure 1). The plants were clearly geophytic (Figure 2) and kept short by fires during the dry winter season. The Adenia plants grew scattered throughout the grassland at about 1 800 m elevation, all more or less the same size, with subterranean tubers. The collected plant was grown on at Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden's succulent collection. It started flowering in sum mer (Figure 3) and was subsequently illustrated by Marieta Visagie. At first it was thought to represent a species new to science, but upon further investigation and the collection of additional material from two sites in the Kaokoveld in Namibia just southwest from Iona, its flowers and leaves soon revealed its true identity. It represented the variable and wide spread A. repanda (Burch.) Engl. Some species, as in the case of our plant, are exceptionally adaptable and are able to adjust their life form according to their habitat. The two sites where the plants occur in Namibia are quite similar to the site at Iona, just north of the Kunene River. The first Namib ian site where our species was collected was at Ozorotuuo (on the Otjihipa Mountain) on 28 April 2013 during an expedition to Marienfluss (Figure 4); the second Namibian site was on the adjacent southwestern slopes of Ozorotuuo Mountain peak on 19 May 2018 (Figure 5). On both expeditions the first author (EJvJ) was accompanied by Wessel Swanepoel from Windhoek. This variability and plasticity of Adenia repanda was documented by Venter (2018) in the journal Aloe where two distinctive narrow-leafed forms of A. repanda were depicted: one illustration by Joseph Pohl in Engler (1910) and another by De Wilde (1971) from his revision of the genus Adenia.