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Aloe cooperi

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Name

Identification
Aloe cooperi Baker [family ASPHODELACEAE ]
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Flora

Entry for ALOE Cooperi Baker [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
ALOE Cooperi Baker [family ALOACEAE], in Gard. Chron. 1874, i. 628;—Bot. Mag. t. 6377; Journ. Linn. Soc. xviii. 155.
ALOE schmidtiana Regel [family ALOACEAE], Gartenfl. 1879, 97, t. 970.
Information
acaulescent; produced leaves 8–10, distichous, linear, much dilated at the base, 1 1/2–2 ft. long, an inch broad low down, tapering gradually to the point, thin in texture, dull green, deeply channelled, spotted with white, obscurely striped; margin narrow, white, horny, with minute deltoid teeth; peduncle simple, 1–2 ft. long, with several ovate-cuspidate empty bracts; flowers 20–30 in a dense corymbose raceme; lower pedicels 1–2 in. long; bracts ovate-lanceolate, 3/4–1 in. long; perianth cylindrical, 1 1/4–1 1/2 in. long, reddish-yellow, tipped with green; tube very short; stamens and style included. null
Distribution
COAST REGION Port Elizabeth Div.; between Drostdy Farm and the Leadmine, Burchell, 4482! and at Cragga Kamma, Burchell, 4564!EASTERN REGION Natal; Inanda, Wood, 843! near Ladysmith, 3000–4000 ft., Wood, 5610! and without precise locality, Cooper, 1193! 3623!

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