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Aloe bainesii

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Identification
Aloe bainesii R.A.Dyer [family ASPHODELACEAE ]
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Flora

Entry for Aloe Bainesii Dyer [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
Aloe Bainesii Dyer [family ALOACEAE], in Gard. Chron. 1874, i. 568, figs. 119–120;—Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xviii. 178; Bot. Mag. t. 6848.
Information
arborescent, with a trunk reaching a height of 50–60 ft., and a diameter of 4–5 ft.; diameter of leafy head 20 ft. or more; leaves ensiform, 2–3 ft. long in the young state, but much shorter in the mature plant, 1 1/2–2 in. broad low down, tapering gradually to the apex, green, unspotted, not prickly on the keel towards the tip; margin with distant, deltoid, horny prickles 1/12– 1/8 in. long; peduncle and rachis very stout and woody; racemes dense, oblong, 3–4 in. long; pedicels stout, erecto-patent, 1/8– 1/6 in. long; bracts minute, lanceolate; perianth oblong, 1 1/2 in. long, 1/2 in. diam., salmon-pink fading into whitish, tipped with green; tube campanulate; outer segments valvate; stamens and style much exserted. null
Distribution
EASTERN REGION Natal, Baines! Var. β, Griqualand East; Shawbury, Mrs. Barber! MacOwan, 2528! Baur!
Notes
Flowered in the Cape botanic garden in June, 1878, and again in 1884.

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