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Aloe pluridens

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Identification
Aloe pluridens Haw. [family ASPHODELACEAE ]
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Entry for Aloe pluridens 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 pluridens Haw. [family ALOACEAE], in Phil. Mag. 1824, 299;—Roem. et Schultes, Syst. Veg. vii. 709; Kunth, Enum. iv. 530; Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xviii. 176.
Aloe Atherstonei Baker [family ALOACEAE], in Journ. Linn. Soc. xviii. 170.
Information
stem simple, reaching a length of 10–12 ft. below the dense rosette of leaves and a diameter in cultivation of 4–6 inches; leaves 30–40 in a rosette, ensiform, very acuminate, 1 1/2–2 ft. long, 1 1/2–2 in. broad, 1/6– 1/4 in. thick in the middle, bright green, without spots or lines; margin with crowded deltoid prickles 1/12– 1/8 in. long, those of the upper half conspicuous, ascending; peduncle simple, a foot long, with many deltoid empty bracts; raceme dense, simple, 1/2 ft. long; lower pedicels 1–1 1/4 in. long; bracts deltoid, half as long as the pedicels; perianth cylindrical, reddish-yellow, 1–1 1/4 in. long; tube very short; stamens finally slightly exserted. null
Distribution
CENTRAL REGION Somerset Div.; in woods at the foot of Bosch Berg, 3000 ft., MacOwan, 1825!COAST REGION Uitenhage Div.; Stink Poort on stony hills, 1000 ft., Bolus, 2688!
Notes
Introduced into cultivation by Bowie about 1820.

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