Published December 4, 2023 | Version v1
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Asphodelaceae de Jussieu 1789

  • 1. Ria Olivier Herbarium, Department of Botany, Nelson Mandela University, P. O. Box 77000, Gqeberha, 6031 South Africa. & smithgideon 1 @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 5417 - 9208
  • 2. Ria Olivier Herbarium, Department of Botany, Nelson Mandela University, P. O. Box 77000, Gqeberha, 6031 South Africa. & epnfigueiredo @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 8511 - 8213
  • 3. Meise Botanic Garden, Nieuwelaan 38, B- 1860 Meise, Belgium. & filip. verloove @ plantentuinmeise. be; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 4144 - 2422
  • 4. Foundational Biodiversity Science Division, South African National Biodiversity Institute, Private Bag X 101, Pretoria, 0001 South Africa. & H. G. W. J. Schweickerdt Herbarium, Department of Plant and Soil Sciences, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, 0002 South Africa.
  • 5. Centre for Applied Ecology Prof. Baeta Neves, School of Agriculture, University of Lisbon, Tapada da Ajuda, 1349 - 017 Lisbon, Portugal. & Egas Moniz Center for Interdisciplinary Research (CiiEM), Egas Moniz School of Health and Science, Campus Universitário, Quinta da Granja, Monte da Caparica, 2829 - 511 Caparica, Portugal.

Description

Identification key to the variously naturalised or casual and escaped alooid species recorded for continental Portugal

1. Racemes distinctly capitate; flowers basally sub-globose-inflated; leaves at maturity adaxially spotted with H-shaped or irregularly-shaped, whitish maculations......................................................................................................................................... Aloe maculata

1’. Racemes broadly or narrowly cone-shaped; flowers not basally globose-inflated; leaves at maturity lacking whitish maculations .. ............................................................................................................................................................................................................2

2. Plants low-growing, lacking a stem or with short stem up to 0.5 m long..........................................................................................3

2’. Plants tall-growing, with distinct, usually much-branched stems and branches, stem> 0.5 m .........................................................4

3. Flowers bright orangey red ............................................................................................................................................ Aloe × nobilis

3’. Flowers yellow ..................................................................................................................................................................... Aloe vera

4. Stem and branches robust, ascending; sheathing leaf base lacking cilia ................................................................. Aloe arborescens

4’. Stem and branches thin, variously scrambling; sheathing leaf base ciliate ..................................... Aloiampelos ciliaris var. ciliaris

Notes

Published as part of Smith, Gideon F., Figueiredo, Estrela, Verloove, Filip, Klopper, Ronell R. & Silva, Vasco, 2023, An annotated catalogue of Aloe and Aloiampelos (Asphodelaceae subfam. Alooideae) naturalised and escaped in continental Portugal, pp. 35-52 in Phytotaxa 629 (1) on page 46, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.629.1.3, http://zenodo.org/record/10254755

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