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Identification
Aloe kraussii Baker [family ASPHODELACEAE ]
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Entry for ALOE Kraussii 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
ALOE Kraussii Baker [family ALOACEAE], in Journ. Linn. Soc. xviii. 159
Information
acaulescent; leaves 6–8, subdistichous, linear, 2–3 ft. long, 1/2–1 in. broad low down, thin in texture, much spotted in the lower part; margin distantly and obscurely denticulate; peduncle simple, above a foot long, with many lanceolate-deltoid empty bracts; flowers 12–20 in a dense corymb; pedicels 1/2– 3/4 in. long; bracts lanceolate-deltoid, much shorter than the pedicels; perianth straight, pale yellow, 1/2– 5/8 in. long; tube very short; stamens included; style finally slightly exserted. null
Distribution
EASTERN REGION Pondoland, Bachmann, 263! Natal; Inanda, Wood, 1217! Camperdown, 2000 ft., Wood, 1959! and grassy places near the Bay of Natal, Krauss, 275! Swazieland; Piggs Peak, 4500 ft., Galpin, 1254!KALAHARI REGION Var. β, Transvaal; stony ridges on mountain tops of the Saddleback Range, near Barberton, 4800 ft. Galpin, 873!

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