Entry for ALOE Ecklonis Salm-Dyck [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 EcklonisSalm-Dyck [family ALOACEAE], Aloe, sect. xxi. fig. 2;—Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xviii. 158.
ALOE clavifloraBurchell [family ALOACEAE], Travels, i. 272?
Information
subacaulescent; leaves densely rosulate, ensiform, a foot long, 1 1/4–1 1/2 in. broad low down, narrowed gradually to the apex, glaucous-green, unspotted; face flat in the lower half, channelled down the upper half; margin with close, small, whitish, horny teeth; peduncle simple, about a foot long, with numerous empty bracts; raceme dense, capitate, about 3 in. diam.; lower pedicels 1 1/4–1 1/2 in. long; bracts lanceolate-deltoid, 1/2 in. long; perianth orange-red, 3/4– 7/8 in. long; tube short; stamens and style distinctly exserted. null
Distribution
SOUTH AFRICA without locality.
Notes
Introduced into cultivation by Ecklon about 1836. Burchell's A. claviflora is only described very briefly, and no specimens seem to have been kept; it was collected among rocks at Riffle River in Fraserburg Division.
