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Gasteria carinata

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Identification
Gasteria carinata (Mill.) Duval [family ASPHODELACEAE ]
Related name
  • Gasteria carinata

Flora

Entry for GASTERIA carinata 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
GASTERIA carinata Haw. [family ALOACEAE], Syn. 87;—Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xviii. 192.
Aloe carinata Miller [family ALOACEAE], Gard. Dict. edit. viii. No. 21; Haw. in Trans. Linn. Soc. vii. 13; Bot. Mag. t. 1331, ex parte; Salm-Dyck, Aloe, sect. xxix. fig. 20; Kunth, Enum. iv. 541.
Aloe africana sessilis foliis carinatis verrucosis Dill. [family ALOACEAE], Hort. Elth. t. 18.
Information
leafy stem 1–1 1/2 in. long; leaves 12–20, arranged in a dense multifarious rosette, lanceolate, 5–6 in. long, 1 1/2–2 in. broad low down, and 1/3 in. thick, narrowed gradually to the deltoid denticulate horny apex, concave on the face, obliquely keeled down the back, dull green, rough, with copious, raised, white, scattered papillæ, the margin and keel prominently papillose; peduncle simple, 1 1/2 ft. long; raceme 1–1 1/2 ft. long; lower pedicels 1/3– 1/2 in. long; bracts small, lanceolate; perianth 7/8–1 in. long, ball oblong, 1/5 in. diam. null
Distribution
SOUTH AFRICA without locality, Zeyher, 4180!
Notes
Introduced into cultivation early in the eighteenth century.

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