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Gasteria obtusifolia

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Identification
Gasteria obtusifolia (Salm-Dyck) Haw. [family ASPHODELACEAE ]
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Flora

Entry for GASTERIA obtusifolia 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 obtusifolia Haw. [family ALOACEAE], in Phil. Mag. 1827, 351;—Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xviii. 186.
Aloe obtusifolia Salm-Dyck [family ALOACEAE], Obs. 62; Aloe, sect. xxix. fig. 37; Kunth, Enum. iv. 548.
Aloe Lingua Salm-Dyck var. brevifolia [family ALOACEAE], Cat. 17.
Information
leafy stem 1 1/2–2 in. long; leaves 12–16, distichous, lingulate, densely crowded, 4–6 in. long, 2–2 1/2 in. broad, broadly rounded and with a minute cusp at the apex, tubercled on the edge below it, 1/6 in. thick in the middle, never doubled on the margin, quite smooth on the surfaces, with copious, small, immersed whitish spots; peduncle simple, above a foot long; raceme 1 1/2 ft. long; pedicels 1/3– 1/2 in. long; bracts minute, lanceolate; perianth 7/8–1 in. long, ball oblong, 1/4– 1/3 in. diam. null
Distribution
SOUTH AFRICA without locality.
Notes
First described from the Vienna collections in 1815.

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