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Aloe arachnoides

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Name

Identification
Aloe arachnoides Thunb. [family ASPHODELACEAE ]
Related name
  • Aloe arachnoides

Flora

Entry for HAWORTHIA reticulata 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
HAWORTHIA reticulata Haw. [family ALOACEAE], Syn. 94; Revis. 57;—Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xviii. 210.
Aloe reticulata Haw. [family ALOACEAE], in Trans. Linn. Soc. vii. 9; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 1354; Salm-Dyck, Aloe, sect. x. fig. 1; Kunth, Enum. iv. 510.
Apicra reticulata Willd. [family ALOACEAE], in Ges. Naturf. Fr. Berl. Mag. v. 272.
Aloe Pumilio Jacq. [family ALOACEAE], Hort. Schoenbr. iv. 11, t. 421.
Aloe herbacea DC. [family ALOACEAE], Hort. Monspel. 76.
Aloe arachnoides var. reticulata [family ALOACEAE], Bot. Mag. t. 1314.
Information
leafy stem short; rosettes cæspitose, 2–2 1/2 in. diam.; leaves 30–40 in a dense multifarious rosette, oblong-lanceolate, 1–1 1/4 in. long, under 1/2 in. broad at the middle, 1/8 in. thick, pale glaucous green on both sides, flattish on the face, minutely scabrous on the margin, rounded and keeled on the back, lineolate, especially on the back in the upper half, with anastomosing ribs of darker green, not distinctly aristate; peduncle simple, slender, 1/2 ft. long; raceme lax, few-flowered, 4–6 in. long; lower pedicels 1/8– 1/6 in. long; bracts small, deltoid; perianth 5/8– 3/4 in. long; limb half as long as the tube. null
Distribution
SOUTH AFRICA without locality, living cultivated plants!
Notes
Introduced into cultivation about 1794.

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