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Gasteria maculata

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Identification
Isotype of Gasteria maculata (Thunb.) Haw. [family ASPHODELACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet, Gasteria bicolor Haw. [family ASPHODELACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet,
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  • Gasteria maculata
  • Gasteria bicolor

Flora

Entry for GASTERIA maculata 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 maculata Haw. [family ALOACEAE], in Phil. Mag. 1827, 349;—Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xviii. 191.
Aloe maculata Thunb. [family ALOACEAE], Diss. No. 10, ex parte; Salm-Dyck, Aloe, sect. xxix. fig. 1; Kunth, Enum. iv. 536.
Aloe obliqua Haw. [family ALOACEAE], in Trans. Linn. Soc. vii. 14.
Aloe maculata Ait. var. obliqua [family ALOACEAE], Hort. Kew. i. 469.
Aloe Lingua Ker [family ALOACEAE], in Bot. Mag. t. 979, excl. syn.
GASTERIA obliqua Haw. [family ALOACEAE], Syn. 85.
Information
shortly caulescent; leafy part of stem often 1/2 ft. long, leaves 12–20, laxly disposed in a spirally twisted rosette, lorate, ensiform, all erecto-patent, firm in texture, 4–6 in. long, about an inch broad, 1/6 in. thick in the centre, smooth and tinted with purple, immersed spots copious, large, white and confluent, one border doubled, edge not tubercled, clasping base with a red horny border; peduncle 1–1 1/2 ft. long, usually simple; racemes a foot or more long; lower pedicels 1/8– 1/2 in. long; bracts lanceolate; perianth 3/4 in. long, ball oblong, 1/4 in. diam. null
Distribution
COAST REGION George Div.; Outeniqua, Thunberg.
Notes
Introduced into cultivation early in the eighteenth century.

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