Entry for GASTERIA transvaalensis Hort. De Smet. ex 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 transvaalensisHort. De Smet. ex Baker [family ALOACEAE], in Journ. Bot. 1889, 44
Information
rosette distichous or slightly oblique; leafy stem short; leaves about 8, lorate, dark green, rather glossy, 4–5 in. long, an inch broad, 1/4 in. thick in the centre, face not excavated, border not thickened, but toothed towards the white, horny, deltoid-cuspidate apex; spots greenish-white, immersed, aggregated into transverse bands; flowers unknown. null
Distribution
KALAHARI REGION Transvaal.
Notes
Described from a living plant in the Kew collection in 1885. Allied to G. nigricans.
