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Aloe plicatilis

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Identification
Aloe plicatilis (L.) Mill. [family ASPHODELACEAE ]
Related name
  • Aloe plicatilis

Flora

Entry for Aloe plicatilis Miller [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 plicatilis Miller [family ALOACEAE], Gard. Dict. edit. viii. No. 7;—Curt. Bot. Mag. t. 457; DC. Plantes Grasses, t. 75; Jacq. Hort. Schoenbr. t. 423; Haw. Syn. 74; Salm-Dyck, Aloe, sect. xxviii. fig. 1.
Aloe disticha Linn. var. plicatilis [family ALOACEAE], Sp. Plant. edit. 1, i. 321.
Kumara disticha Medic. [family ], Theod. 70, t. 4.
Aloe tripetala Medic. [family ALOACEAE], Beobacht. 55.
Rhipidodendron distichum Willd. [family ], in Ges. Naturf. Fr. Berl. Mag. v. 165.
Rhipidodendron plicatile Haw. [family ], Revis. 45.
Information
stem shrubby, very much branched, reaching even in cultivation a height of 10–12 ft. and a thickness of a foot; leaves 10–30, distichous, ligulate, obtuse, 6–9 in. long, 1 1/4–1 1/2 in. broad, spreading, very glaucous, unspotted, with a narrow whitish margin denticulate towards the tip; peduncle simple, about a foot long; raceme 20–30-flowered, 1/2 ft. long; pedicels 1/2– 3/4 in. long; bracts small, deltoid; perianth cylindrical, reddish-yellow, 1 1/2–1 3/4 in. long; inner segments nearly free; outer united to the middle; stamens as long as the perianth. null
Distribution
COAST REGION On rocks behind Tulbagh Waterfall, MacOwan, 2259! and on mountains of New Kloof, near Tulbagh, 850 ft., MacOwan, Herb. Aust. Afr., 1555!
Notes
Introduced into cultivation at the beginning of the eighteenth century.

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