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Aloe tenuior

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Name

Identification
Aloe tenuior Haw. [family ASPHODELACEAE ]
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Flora

Entry for Aloe tenuior 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 tenuior Haw. [family ALOACEAE], in Phil. Mag. 1825, 281;—Roem. et Schultes, Syst. Veg. vii. 704; Salm-Dyck, Aloe, sect. xxv. fig. 3; Kunth, Enum. iv. 529; Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xviii. 169.
Information
stem many yards long when fully developed, sarmentose; branches terete, 1/4– 1/3 in. diam.; internodes 1/2–1 in. long, obscurely striped with green; leaves linear, 6–8 in. long, about 1/2 in. broad low down, 1/12 in. thick in the centre, plain green, not auricled at the base; all the marginal teeth very minute; peduncles slender, simple, 6–9 in. long; racemes moderately dense, 4–6 in. long; lower pedicels 1/4– 1/3 in. long; bracts very minute; perianth cylindrical, pale yellow, 1/3– 1/2 in. long; segments short, ovate; stamens and style both distinctly exserted. null
Distribution
COAST REGION Albany Div.; Karoo near Fort Brown, 1500 ft., MacOwan, 1140! Bedford Div.; near the Fish River, Burke! Bathurst Div.; near the Fish River, Drège, 3525! Fort Beaufort Div.; banks of the Kat River, Zeyher, 1052!
Notes
Introduced into cultivation by Bowie in 1820.

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