Entry From
Flora of South Africa, (2003) Author: Dr J.P. Roux
Common names
A. immaculata Pillans: 25 (1934b); Reynolds: 239 (1950); Jeppe: 81 (1969); Bornman & D.S.Hardy: 101 (1972); B.-E. van Wyk & G.F.Sm.: 200 (1996). Type: Northern Province, Malips Drift, Herre SUG6774 (BOL, holo.!).
Habitat
Berger (1908) considered that this species was related (affinis, in Latin) to A. zebrina. This is undoubtedly true, but the relationship is no closer than that between this species and any other maculate.
Use
47. Aloe affinis A.Berger in Das Pflan-zenreich 33: 206 (1908); Pole Evans: t. 759 (1939a); Reynolds: 243 (1950); Jeppe: 80 (1969); Bornman & D.S.Hardy: 105 (1972); Compton: 97 (1976); B.-E. van Wyk & G.F.Sm.: 182 (1996). Type: Mpumalanga, near Lyden-burg, Wilms 1490 (B).
Range
Aloe affinis has been recorded in the Northern Province, Gauteng and Mpumalanga, and occurs on sandy loam in bushveld. Plants of this species normally have leaves without spots or with only very few, irregularly arranged spots, and chocoÂlate-brown horny margins. However, one finds plants with unspotted leaves in the same populaÂtion as plants with quite densely spotted leaves, and plants with continuous, broken and absent brown margins all in one population. The absent to obscure leaf spots, brown horny margins and flowers with pronounced basal swellings distinÂguish typical plants of this species from all other species. Map 37.