Self-Rectangulating Varieties of Type 5

We show that a locally finite variety which omits abelian types is self–rectangulating if and only if it has a compatible semilattice term operation. Such varieties must have type–set {5 }. These varieties are residually small and, when they are finitely generated, they have definable principal congruences. We show that idempotent varieties with a compatible semilattice term operation have the congruence extension property.