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Aloe abyssinica

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Name

Identification
Aloe elegans Tod. [family ALOACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Reynolds, Aloe abyssinica Lam. [family ALOACEAE ] Verified by Unknown, Aloe aethiopica A.Berger [family ALOACEAE ] Verified by Greenway,
Related name
  • Aloe abyssinica
  • Aloe elegans
  • Aloe eru
  • Aloe camperi
  • Aloe aethiopica

Flora

Entry for ALOE percrassa Todaro [family ALOACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol 7, page 421, (1898) Author: (By J. G. Baker.)
Names
ALOE percrassa Todaro [family ALOACEAE], Hort. Bot. Panorm. i. 81, t. 21. —Schweinf. in Bull. Herb. Boiss. ii. App. ii. 62.
ALOE abyssinica Baker var. percrassa [family ALOACEAE], in Journ. Linn. Soc. xviii. 175; Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 164.
Information
Subacaulescent. Leaves densely rosulate, lanceolate-ensiform, sometimes spotted, deep green, reaching a length of 2 1/2 ft. and a breadth of 6–7 in. low down, narrowed gradually to the point; marginal teeth small, deltoid, brown and horny at the tip. Peduncle branched, 3 ft. long, including the inflorescence; racemes cylindrical, above 1 ft. long; rhachis pubescent; pedicels 1/4– 1/2 in. long; bracts ovate, much longer than the pedicels. Perianth above 1 in. long, red; tube as long as the segments. Stamens as long as the perianth. Capsule oblong-cylindrical, pubescent, under 1 in. long.
Distribution
Eritrea Nile Land Selet Valley; below Acrur, 5200 ft., Schweinfurth, 1804, and below Saganeiti, 5500 ft., Schweinfurth & Riva, 1664! Ginda Valley, 3000–4000 ft., Schweinfurth & Riva, 2229! 2291! Barasio Valley, Schweinfurth, 2077.
Notes
Introduced into cultivation in 1873.

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