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Aloe latifolia

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Aloe latifolia
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Flora

Entry for Aloe latifolia 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
Aloe latifolia Haw. [family ALOACEAE], Syn. 82;—Roem. et Schultes, Syst. Veg. vii. 700; Kunth, Enum. iv. 526; Salm-Dyck, Aloe, sect. xxiii. fig. 3; Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xviii. 164.
Aloe saponaria Haw. var. latifolia [family ALOACEAE], in Trans. Linn. Soc. vii. 18; Sims in Bot. Mag. t. 1346.
Information
stem simple, reaching 1–2 ft. in length, 2–3 in. diam. below the dense rosette of leaves; leaves 12–20, oblong-lanceolate, 1/2–1 ft. long, 2–3 1/2 in. broad low down, 1/4– 1/3 in. thick in the middle, glossy green, obscurely lineate, with irregular bands of linear-oblong or oblong, whitish blotches, 1/2– 3/4 in. long; margin with deltoid-cuspidate, brown, horny prickles 1/8– 1/6 in. long; peduncle robust, simple or forked, 1–2 ft. long; racemes 4–5 in. long and broad; lower pedicels 1 1/2–2 in. long; bracts very acuminate, an inch or more long; perianth bright red-yellow, 1 1/4–1 1/2 in. long; tube longer than the segments, constricted above the ovary; stamens not exserted. null
Distribution
CENTRAL REGION Karoo near Graaff Reinet, 2700 ft., Bolus, 751!COAST REGION Cathcart Div.; Tushintush, near Windvogel Mountain, 3500 ft., Baur, 1121!
Notes
Introduced into cultivation about 1795, probably by Masson.

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