Aloe transvaalensis Kuntze
Authors/Creators
- 1. Biosystematics Research and Biodiversity Collections Division, South African National Biodiversity Institute, Private Bag X 101, Pretoria, 0001 South Africa & H. G. W. J. Schweickerdt Herbarium, Department of Plant Science, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, 0002 South Africa & Centre for Functional Ecology, Departamento de Ciências da Vida, Universidade de Coimbra, 3001 - 455 Coimbra, Portugal.
- 2. Centre for Functional Ecology, Departamento de Ciências da Vida, Universidade de Coimbra, 3001 - 455 Coimbra, Portugal & Department of Botany, P. O. Box 77000, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, Port Elizabeth, 6031 South Africa
- 3. Biosystematics Research and Biodiversity Collections Division, South African National Biodiversity Institute, Private Bag X 101, Pretoria, 0001 South Africa & H. G. W. J. Schweickerdt Herbarium, Department of Plant Science, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, 0002 South Africa
- 4. Ethnobotany Unit, South African National Biodiversity Institute, P. O. Box 52099, 4007 Berea Road, South Africa & School of Chemistry and Physics, University of KwaZulu-Natal, 4041 Durban, South Africa
Description
Aloe transvaalensis Kuntze in Revisio Generum Plantarum 3(2): 314 (1898).
Type: South Africa, Gauteng, Pretoria, 17 February 1894, Kuntze s.n. (NY, holo.; K, iso.!)
A. laxissima Reynolds in J. S. Afr. Bot. 2: 28 (1936).
Type: South Africa, Limpopo Province, near Nebo, March 1935, G.W. Reynolds 767 (PRE, holo.!)
Diagnostic characters: This aloe occurs as solitary plants or in small groups, only occasionally in large groups. Leaves are usually a dull milky green, with the lower surface paler green and more obscurely spotted in less defined bands than the upper surface, to unspotted. Inflorescences are ± 1 m high and compactly branched from above the middle (Figure 5). Flowers are ± 36 mm long and flesh-pink with a 1 mm wide white border on the outer perianth segments.
Distribution: It is centred in central South Africa, especially in the Gauteng province around Pretoria and Johannesburg, also southeast towards Heidelberg and to Standerton in Mpumalanga, and westwards to Rustenburg and Zeerust in the northern parts of the North-West province. It is also reported from near Serowe and Mabela-e-Pudi in Botswana (see for example Hargreaves, 1990), but the identity of material from these localities requires confirmation.
Habitat: Rocky slopes, often at the foot of koppies, frequently between shrubs and bushes.
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Related works
- Cites
- Figure: 10.5281/zenodo.7868270 (DOI)
- Is part of
- Journal article: 10.25223/brad.n30.2012.a19 (DOI)
- Journal article: http://zenodo.org/record/7868257 (URL)
- Journal article: http://publication.plazi.org/id/FF82BE3E1707FF998E28FF99B42E5047 (URL)
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- K , NY , PRE
- Event date
- 1894-02-17
- Verbatim event date
- 1894-02-17
- Scientific name authorship
- Kuntze
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Phylum
- Tracheophyta
- Order
- Asparagales
- Family
- Asphodelaceae
- Genus
- Aloe
- Species
- transvaalensis
- Taxon rank
- species
- Type status
- holotype , isotype
References
- HARGREAVES, B. J. (1990). The succulents of Botsaeana. National Museum, Monuments and Art Gallery, [Gaborone], Botswana.