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Aloe lineata

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Identification
Aloe lineata (Aiton) Haw. [family ASPHODELACEAE ]
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  • Aloe lineata

Flora

Entry for ALOE lineata 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 lineata Haw. [family ALOACEAE], in Trans. Linn. Soc. vii. 18; Syn. 79;—Roem. et Schultes, Syst. Veg. vii. 689; Salm-Dyck, Aloe, sect. xvii. fig. 1; Kunth, Enum. iv. 520; Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xviii. 159.
ALOE perfoliata Ait. var. lineata [family ALOACEAE], Hort. Kew. i. 467.
Information
stem finally 1/2–1 ft. long below the rosette of leaves, simple, 2 in. diam.; leaves 30–40 in a dense rosette, lanceolate, about a foot long, 2 in. broad low down, narrowed gradually to the apex, 1/4– 1/3 in. thick, glaucous-green, unspotted, flat in the lower part of the face, marked with very distinct green vertical lines, rounded and smooth on the back; margin with close, reddish-brown, deltoid, horny prickles 1/12– 1/8 in. long; peduncle simple, about a foot long; raceme dense, 1/2 ft. long; lower pedicels 1–1 1/2 in. long; bracts lanceolate-deltoid, much shorter than the pedicels; perianth cylindrical, bright red, tipped with green; tube cylindrical about 1/2 in. long; stamens and style scarcely exserted. null
Distribution
SOUTH AFRICA without locality.
Notes
Introduced into cultivation about 1789.

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