Asphodelaceae de Jussieu 1789
Authors/Creators
- 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
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- de Jussieu
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Phylum
- Tracheophyta
- Order
- Asparagales
- Family
- Asphodelaceae
- Taxon rank
- family
- Taxonomic concept label
- Asphodelaceae Jussieu, 1789 sec. Smith, Figueiredo, Verloove, Klopper & Silva, 2023