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Aloe saponaria

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Name

Identification
Aloe saponaria (Aiton) Haw. [family ASPHODELACEAE ]
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Flora

Entry for Aloe saponaria 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 saponaria Haw. [family ALOACEAE], Syn. 83;—Roem. et Schultes, Syst. Veg. vii. 699; Kunth, Enum. iv. 526; Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xviii. 164.
Aloe disticha Miller [family ALOACEAE], Gard. Dict. edit. viii. No. 5.
Aloe maculosa Lam. [family ALOACEAE], Encyc. i. 87, in part.
Aloe umbellata DC. var. minor [family ALOACEAE], Plantes Grasses, t. 98.
Aloe umbellata Salm-Dyck [family ALOACEAE], Aloe, sect. xxiii. fig. 1.
Aloe perfoliata Ait. var. saponaria [family ALOACEAE], Hort. Kew. i. 467, excl. syn.
Aloe saponaria Haw. var. minor [family ALOACEAE], in Trans. Linn. Soc. vii. 17; Sims in Bot. Mag. t. 1460.
Information
mature plants with a stem 1/2–1 ft. long, 2–3 in. diam. below the dense rosette of leaves; leaves 12–20, lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, 1/2–1 ft. long, 2 in. broad low down, 1/4 in. thick in the middle, green, or tinged with purple, indistinctly lineate with copious oblong whitish spots; margin with deltoid, cuspidate, horny, reddish-brown prickles 1/8– 1/6 in. long; peduncle simple or forked, about a foot along; raceme dense, capitate, 3–4 in. long and broad; lower pedicels 1 1/2–2 in. long; bracts deltoid-cuspidate, much shorter than the pedicels; perianth bright red-yellow, 1 1/2–1 3/4 in. long; tube cylindrical, constricted above the ovary; segments shorter than the tube; stamens not exserted. null
Distribution
COAST REGION Paarl Mountains, 1000–2000 ft., Drège, 8635! Caledon Div.; mountains near Genadendal, 1400 ft., Bolus, 7430!EASTERN REGION Pondoland, Bachmann, 264!
Notes
Introduced into cultivation early in the eighteenth century, and figured by Dillenius in the Hortus Elthamensis, t. 14, fig. 15.

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