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Aloe perfoliata Linnaeus 1753

Authors/Creators

  • 1. Department of Botany, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London, UK

Description

Aloë perfoliata Linnaeus, Species Plantarum 1: 319. 1753.

"Habitat in Aethiopia." RCN: 2511.

Lectotype (Reynolds, Aloes S. Africa: 89, f. 69. 1950): Herb. Linn. No. 442.1 (LINN).

Generitype of Aloë Linnaeus (vide Hitchcock, Prop. Brit. Bot.: 146. 1929).

Current name: Aloë perfoliata L. (Liliaceae / Asphodelaceae).

Note: The lectotype, while clearly an Aloë, apparently cannot be identified to species. Wijnands (Bot. Commelins: 124. 1983) provided current names for each unnamed variety listed in the original description, as did Newton (in Eggli, Ill. Handb. Succ. Pl., Monocots: 133. 2001). The latter appears to treat this name as synonymous with A. ferox Mill.

Notes

Published as part of Jarvis, Charlie, 2007, Chapter 7: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (part A), pp. 252-342 in Order out of Chaos. Linnaean Plant Types and their Types, London :Linnaean Society of London in association with the Natural History Museum on page 279, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.291971

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Biodiversity

Collection code
LINN
Material sample ID
442.1
Scientific name authorship
Linnaeus
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Order
Asparagales
Family
Xanthorrhoeaceae
Genus
Aloe
Species
perfoliata
Taxon rank
species
Type status
lectotype
Taxonomic concept label
Aloe perfoliata Linnaeus, 1753 sec. Jarvis, 2007