Entry for GASTERIA excelsa Baker [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 excelsaBaker [family ALOACEAE], in Journ. Linn. Soc. xviii. 195
Information
leafy stem 2–3 in. long; leaves 10–30, arranged in a dense multifarious rosette, outer spreading, inner erecto-patent, lanceolate, 8–12 in. long, 2 1/2–3 in. broad and 1/2– 3/4 in. thick low down, face concave, back obliquely keeled, dull green, with a few faint im-mersed spots of greenish-white, edges smooth or only very obscurely papillose; peduncle about a foot long; racemes 8–10, forming a large deltoid panicle, end one 2 ft. long; pedicels 1/4– 1/3 in. long; bracts lanceolate, as long as the pedicels; perianth 7/8 in. long, tube oblong, 1/4 in. diam. null
Distribution
COAST REGION King Williamstown Div.; near the Chalumna River, living plants introduced into cultivation about 1860 by T. Cooper!
