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Aloe zebrina

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Name

Identification
Isotype of Aloe lettyae Reynolds [family ASPHODELACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet, Aloe zebrina Baker [family ASPHODELACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Hardy&Glen, 1986
Related name
  • Aloe zebrina
  • Aloe bamangwatensis
  • Aloe constricta
  • Aloe lugardiana
  • Aloe lettyae
  • Aloe komatiensis
  • Aloe transvaalensis
  • Aloe platyphylla
  • Aloe ammophila
  • Aloe laxissima

Flora

Entry for Aloe zebrina [family ALOACEAE]
Herbarium
South African National Biodiversity Institute, Compton Herbarium, Cape Town (SAM)
Collection
Flora of Southern Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of South Africa, (2003) Author: Dr J.P. Roux
Names
Aloe zebrina [family ALOACEAE]
Common names
A. platyphylla Baker: 264 (1878b); Baker: 463 (1898a); A.Berger: 207 (1908). Type: Angola, Pungo Andongo, Welwitsch 3722 (K, lecto.!; BM!, LISU). A. constricta Baker: 168 (1880a); Baker: 464 (1898a); Reynolds: 523 (1966). Type: Mozambique, near Sena, Kirk 34 (K). A. transvaalensis Kuntze: 314 (1898); A.Berger: 211 (1908); Reynolds: 114 (1936a); Pole Evans: t. 636 (1936h); Reynolds: 272 (1950); Jeppe: 97 (1969); Bornman & D.S.Hardy: 137 (1972). Type: Gauteng, Pretoria, Kuntze s.n. (NY, hole; K!; PRE, photo.!). A. lugardiana Baker: 135 (1901b); A.Berger: 207 (1908). Type: Botswana, Botletle River, E.J. Lugard s.n. (K). A. baumii Engl. & Gilg in Warb.: 191 (1903); A.Berger: 226 (1904); Hemsley: t. 7948 (1904). Type: Angola, Chirumbu, Baum 275 (B). A. bamangwatensis Schonland: 122 (1904). Type: Botswana, Palapye Road, Schonland GRAA7223 (GRA!). A. laxissima Reynolds: 28 (1936©; Jeppe: 98 (1969); Bornman & D.S.Hardy: 135 (1972). Type: Northern Province, near Nebo, Reynolds 767 (PRE, holo.!; BOL!). A. ammophila Reynolds: 116 (1936a); Reynolds: 270 (1950); Jeppe: 99 (1969); Bornman & D.S.Hardy: 133 (1972). Type: Northern Province, Pietersburg, Reynolds 1345 (PRE!). A. komatiensis Reynolds: 120 (1936a); Reynolds: 254 (1950); Jeppe: 73 (1969); Bornman & D.S.Hardy: 117 (1972). Type: Mpumalanga, Komatipoort, Reynolds 1543 (PRE, holo.!; BOL!). A. lettyae Reynolds: 137 (1937c); Reynolds: t. 764 (1940a); Reynolds: 259 (1950); Jeppe: 78 (1969); Bornman & D.S.Hardy: 121 (1972); B.-E. van Wyk & G.F.Sm.: 202 (1996). Type: Northern Province, Duiwelskloof, Reynolds 2339 (PRE, holo.!; BOL!). A. vandermerwei Reynolds: 268 (1950); Jeppe: 88 (1969); Bornman & D.S.Hardy: 131 (1972). Type: Northern Province, Gravelotte, F.Z. van der Merwe PRE21288 (PRE!).
Information
Plants stemless or short-stemmed, 150-300 mm tall excluding inflorescence, suckering freely to form large, dense groups. Leaves 15-25 per rosette, narrowly ensiform, 200-600 x 35-80 mm, slightly channelled, upper surface with many whitish spots, usually in irregular transverse bands, lower surface with few to many spots. Inflorescence with 6-many ulti­mate branches, 1.0-1.7 m tall; racemes cylin-dric, elongate, lax, terminal; bracts deltoid-cir-rhous, ± 5-12 x 2 mm, 3-many-nerved. Flowers very pale to deep pink, dull or glossy, 20-30 mm long, mouth straight; outer segments free for 5-7 mm, inner segments adnate to outer; pedicels 6-11 mm long, lengthening to ± 15 mm in fruit. Anthers exserted up to 3 mm. Ovary ± 8 x 2-3 mm, green; style exserted up to 3 mm. Fruit 21-38 x 13-18 mm, greyish pur­plish brown. Seeds charcoal-grey, ± 6.0 x 3.0 x 1.5 mm, with conspicuous brown wing. Flowering time mostly February to April, but plants flowering as early as November and as late as May have been recorded.
Habitat
Although superficially similar to A. great-headii (no. 46), this species is useless to bees as the flower is too narrow to admit them. Other characters separating this species from A. great-headii and A. parvibracteata (no. 54) are dis­cussed under those species. A. zebrina is a member of a difficult complex which would repay intensive study.
Use
56. Aloe zebrina Baker in Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 1: 264 (1878b); Baker: 464 (1898a); Rendle: 45 (1899); A.Ber-ger: 207 (1908); Reynolds: 281 (1950); Reynolds: 89 (1966); Jeppe: 87 (1969); Solch, Roessler & Merxm.: 19 (1970); Bornman & D.S.Hardy: 147 (1972); West: 49 (1974); Jan-kowitz: 12 (1975); B.-E. van Wyk & G.F.Sm.: 232 (1996). Type: Angola, Cacuaco, Welwitsch 3721 (LISU, lecto.; BM!, K; designated by Reynolds 1966).
Range
Aloe zebrina is widely distributed, and occurs in a variety of veld types and on a vari­ety of soils in Namibia, Botswana, the Northern Province, North-West, Gauteng, Mpumalanga and Swaziland; also in Angola, Zambia, Mala­wi, Mozambique and Zimbabwe. Temperatures are usually high in summer but may, in parts of its range, become very low in winter. Rainfall in the distribution area of this species is high in the extreme northwest, but low elsewhere, with a summer maximum throughout. Map 42.

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