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Aloe acuminata

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Name

Identification
Gasteria verrucosa (Mill.) Duval [family XANTHORRHOEACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet, Aloe acuminata Lam. [family XANTHORRHOEACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet,
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  • Aloe acuminata
  • Gasteria verrucosa

Flora

Entry for GASTERIA verrucosa Haw. [family ALOACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, page 253, (1897) Author: (By J. G. BAKER).
Names
GASTERIA verrucosa Haw. [family ALOACEAE], Syn. 89;—Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xviii. 184.
Aloe verrucosa Miller [family ALOACEAE], Gard. Dict. edit. viii. No. 20; Willd. Sp. Plant. ii. 189; Bot. Mag. t. 837; Salm-Dyck, Aloe sect. 29, t. 25; Kunth, Enum. iv. 543.
Aloe carinata DC. [family ALOACEAE], Plantes Grasses, t. 63.
Aloe disticha Linn. [family ALOACEAE], Sp. Plant. edit. 2, 459, ex parte.
Aloe acuminata Lam. [family ALOACEAE], Encyc. i. 90, excl. syn.
Information
leafy stem 1 1/2–2 in. long; leaves 10–12, distichous, lanceolate, spreading, 6–9 in. long, 1–1 1/2 in. broad, dull green, edges thickened on both sides, face concave in the lower half; apex deltoid-cuspidate; spots pure white, crowded, scattered, prominently raised; clasping base with a reddish-white cartilaginous edge; peduncle usually simple in the type; raceme lax, a foot long; pedicels 1/3– 1/2 in. long; bracts lanceolate, shorter than the pedicels; perianth 3/4– 7/8 in. long; ball oblong, 1/6 in. diam. null
Distribution
SOUTH AFRICA without locality.
Notes
Cultivated by Boerhaave and Miller, 1720–1730. There is a specimen in the herbarium of Bishop Goodenough, dried probably from Kew about 1780.

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