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Aloe schimperi

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Name

Identification
Aloe schimperi Tod. [family ASPHODELACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet, Aloe percrassa Tod. [family ASPHODELACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet,
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  • Aloe percrassa

Flora

Entry for ALOE Schimperi Todaro [family ALOACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol 7, page 421, (1898) Author: (By J. G. Baker.)
Names
ALOE Schimperi Todaro [family ALOACEAE], Hort. Bot. Panorm. i. 70, t. 16. —Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xviii. 159; Schweinf. in Bull. Herb. Boiss. ii. App. ii. 70, 110.
ALOE lineata A. Br. var. latifolia [family ALOACEAE], in Ind. Sem. Hort. Berol. 1869, 7.
Information
Caudex short, simple. Leaves densely rosulate, ovate-lanceolate, 1–1 1/2 ft. long, 6–7 in. broad low down, glaucous green, distinctly lineate, obscurely spotted, concave above the middle, furnished with a thin reddish horny border; teeth crowded, irregular, minute, deltoid. Peduncle stout, 2–3 ft. long, much branched. Raceme short, crowded; pedicels 1–1 1/4 in. long; bracts ovate-lanceolate, 1/2 in. long. Perianth bright red, 18–21 lin. long, constricted above the ovary; segments rather shorter than the tube. Stamens slightly exserted. Capsule oblong-cylindrical, nearly 1 in. long.
Distribution
Eritrea Nile Land near Halai, 8400 ft., Schweinfurth, 152! Kohaito Plateau, 8400–8700 ft., Schweinfurth, 153! Saganeiti, in the Goua Gorge, near Addingfou, Schweinfurth & Riva, 722! 1330!
Notes
Introduced into cultivation in 1869.

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