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Gasteria pulchra

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Identification
Gasteria pulchra (Aiton) Haw. [family ASPHODELACEAE ]
Related name
  • Gasteria pulchra

Flora

Entry for GASTERIA pulchra 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 pulchra Haw. [family ALOACEAE], Syn. 86;—Haw. in Phil. Mag. 1827, 349; Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xviii. 191.
Aloe pulchra Jacq. [family ALOACEAE], in Hort. Schoenbr. t. 419; Haw. in Trans. Linn. Soc. vii. 14; Salm-Dyck, Aloe, sect. xxix. fig. 2; Kunth, Enum. iv. 536.
Aloe obliqua DC. [family ALOACEAE], Plantes Grasses, t. 91.
Aloe maculata Ker [family ALOACEAE], in Bot. Mag. t. 765.
Aloe foliis linguiformibus variegatis Miller [family ALOACEAE], Ic. t. 292.
Information
shortly caulescent; leafy part of stem 1/2 ft. or more long; leaves 12–20, laxly arranged in a spirally distichous rosette, all erecto-patent, ensiform, 1–1 1/2 ft. long, an inch broad low down, narrowed gradually to the tip, smooth, often tinted with purple, furnished with copious, large, immersed, white confluent spots, one border doubled, edge not tubercled; peduncle branched, 3 ft. long including the inflorescence; racemes 1–1 1/2 ft. long; lower pedicels 1/3– 1/2 in. long; bracts small, lanceolate; perianth 3/4 in. long, ball oblong, 1/4 in. diam. null
Distribution
SOUTH AFRICA without locality.
Notes
Introduced into cultivation early in the eighteenth century. Closely allied to G. maculata.

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