Somebody please give this plant a sensible name

This was also given to me as an unrooted cutting, from March this year, and simply labeled 'Huernia guttata hybrid', a designation that is only partly useful because the other half of the parents isn't mentioned. But I do not blame the person who gave me this, as she was only passing the given name to me. And that is actually one of my pet peeves in the stapeliad hobby- you'll see names such as Stapelia schinzii hybrid, or Huernia thuretii hybrid, but whoever made the hybridization wasn't bright enough to also supply the name of the other parent, or at least the other suspected parent* which could be H. hallii or species similar to it. This practice of giving vague names to supposed hybrids is practically unheard of from collectors in other plant groups- you won't hear ambiguous names such as 'Phalaenopsis equestris hybrid' or 'Nepenthes hamata hybrid'.

Anyway...

From the photo above you probably noticed a maggot inside the urn. That surprised me too, because I could not detect any repulsive odor from the flower (okay, I can smell something, but it's extremely weak and not at all disagreeable). I guess the fly who laid its eggs inside the flower was duped by the flower coloration and patterning: it demands not much from the imagination to see that the flower appears to have been spattered with blood. And where there is blood, there should be a dead animal awaiting putrefaction. And what better way to be a good parent than ensure that your babies get first dibs on flesh that is going to rot very soon. Except that in this case, there's no such thing as a free lunch. Some plants can be downright nasty. The flower is 4.8 cm across, or almost 2 inches.

Photo below illustrates the ring of papillae around the 'urn'. I reckon that those appendages serve as a barrier to coral maggots and dissuade them from getting out.

The plant has come quite a long way since I received it, and has since produced some stems from the tip, which gives it a candelabra-shape.

There are three more buds forming, and this one is evidently the next in line. Even from the bud stage, the maculations can already be seen:

This is a very easy and undemanding plant to keep. I maintain it on a mixture of pumice and S1 with some other types of rocks and given a few pellets of time-release fertilizer. The potting medium has scattered pieces of dead leaves from plants and bamboos nearby, but I doubt if the organic matter contributes enough to the plant's nutrient requirements.

If anyone can supply me the name of the other parent, I shall be most glad. But for now, I guess the maggot is already cursing its mom for being a credulous dumbass.


*In a greenhouse setting, it is not unusual for plants blooming in synchrony to be cross-pollinated, producing hybrids. Assuming that the pollen parent isn't known with certainty, a simple deductive process can allow one to narrow down on likely candidates, which can be proven on subsequent, controlled hybridizing. Giving only the seed parent's name is both lazy and irresponsible, in my opinion.