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Aloe grandidentata [family ALOACEAE]

Date Updated: 19 August 2007

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 grandidentata [family ALOACEAE]
Information
Plants stemless or very short-stemmed, 150-300 mm tall excluding inflorescence, suck­ering freely to form large groups. Leaves 10-20 per rosette, 100-250 x 35-75 mm, both surfaces with many whitish spots in irregular undulating transverse bands. Inflorescence with 4-7 ulti­mate branches, ± 900 mm tall; racemes dense, conical, not secund; bracts narrowly deltoid-acuminate, 8-10 x 3-4 mm, 1-5-nerved. Flowers dull reddish, 19-30 mm long, clavate above constriction above ovary; outer segments free for 6-10 mm, inner segments dorsally adnate to outer; pedicels 5-13 mm long. Anthers exserted up to 5 mm. Ovary 6.0-9.0 x 1.5-3.0 mm, olive-green; style exserted up to 5 mm. Fruit 22-25 x 9-11 mm, greenish. Flowering time August to September.
Habitat
The clavate flowers distinguish this species from all other members of the section. This species does not grow in populations mixed with any other maculate aloes; geographical distribution can therefore be used to distinguish it from others of the genus.
Use
58. Aloe grandidentata Salm-Dyck, Observations botanicae in Horto Dyckensi 3: 3 (1822); Salm-Dyck: 23, t. 4 (1854); Baker: 314 (1896a); A.Berger: 215 (1908); Pole Evans: t. 286 (1928c); Reynolds: 285 (1950); Jeppe: 100 (1969); Bornman & D.S.Hardy: 149 (1972); B.-E. van Wyk & G.F.Sm.: 194 (1996). Iconotype: Salm-Dyck, Monographia generum Aloes et Mesembryanthemi: 23, t. 4 (1854).
Range
Found in Botswana, North-West, the Free State and the Northern, Western and Eastern Cape. In the west of its range, A. grandidentata occurs in karroid scrub on ironstone ridges, but further east it occurs on calcrete as well. Rainfall and winter temperatures throughout its range are low. Map 43.

Date Updated: 19 August 2007

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 grandidentata [family ALOACEAE]
Information
Plants stemless or very short-stemmed, 150-300 mm tall excluding inflorescence, suck­ering freely to form large groups. Leaves 10-20 per rosette, 100-250 x 35-75 mm, both surfaces with many whitish spots in irregular undulating transverse bands. Inflorescence with 4-7 ulti­mate branches, ± 900 mm tall; racemes dense, conical, not secund; bracts narrowly deltoid-acuminate, 8-10 x 3-4 mm, 1-5-nerved. Flowers dull reddish, 19-30 mm long, clavate above constriction above ovary; outer segments free for 6-10 mm, inner segments dorsally adnate to outer; pedicels 5-13 mm long. Anthers exserted up to 5 mm. Ovary 6.0-9.0 x 1.5-3.0 mm, olive-green; style exserted up to 5 mm. Fruit 22-25 x 9-11 mm, greenish. Flowering time August to September.
Habitat
The clavate flowers distinguish this species from all other members of the section. This species does not grow in populations mixed with any other maculate aloes; geographical distribution can therefore be used to distinguish it from others of the genus.
Use
58. Aloe grandidentata Salm-Dyck, Observations botanicae in Horto Dyckensi 3: 3 (1822); Salm-Dyck: 23, t. 4 (1854); Baker: 314 (1896a); A.Berger: 215 (1908); Pole Evans: t. 286 (1928c); Reynolds: 285 (1950); Jeppe: 100 (1969); Bornman & D.S.Hardy: 149 (1972); B.-E. van Wyk & G.F.Sm.: 194 (1996). Iconotype: Salm-Dyck, Monographia generum Aloes et Mesembryanthemi: 23, t. 4 (1854).
Range
Found in Botswana, North-West, the Free State and the Northern, Western and Eastern Cape. In the west of its range, A. grandidentata occurs in karroid scrub on ironstone ridges, but further east it occurs on calcrete as well. Rainfall and winter temperatures throughout its range are low. Map 43.

Date Updated: 19 August 2007

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 grandidentata [family ALOACEAE]
Information
Plants stemless or very short-stemmed, 150-300 mm tall excluding inflorescence, suck­ering freely to form large groups. Leaves 10-20 per rosette, 100-250 x 35-75 mm, both surfaces with many whitish spots in irregular undulating transverse bands. Inflorescence with 4-7 ulti­mate branches, ± 900 mm tall; racemes dense, conical, not secund; bracts narrowly deltoid-acuminate, 8-10 x 3-4 mm, 1-5-nerved. Flowers dull reddish, 19-30 mm long, clavate above constriction above ovary; outer segments free for 6-10 mm, inner segments dorsally adnate to outer; pedicels 5-13 mm long. Anthers exserted up to 5 mm. Ovary 6.0-9.0 x 1.5-3.0 mm, olive-green; style exserted up to 5 mm. Fruit 22-25 x 9-11 mm, greenish. Flowering time August to September.
Habitat
The clavate flowers distinguish this species from all other members of the section. This species does not grow in populations mixed with any other maculate aloes; geographical distribution can therefore be used to distinguish it from others of the genus.
Use
58. Aloe grandidentata Salm-Dyck, Observations botanicae in Horto Dyckensi 3: 3 (1822); Salm-Dyck: 23, t. 4 (1854); Baker: 314 (1896a); A.Berger: 215 (1908); Pole Evans: t. 286 (1928c); Reynolds: 285 (1950); Jeppe: 100 (1969); Bornman & D.S.Hardy: 149 (1972); B.-E. van Wyk & G.F.Sm.: 194 (1996). Iconotype: Salm-Dyck, Monographia generum Aloes et Mesembryanthemi: 23, t. 4 (1854).
Range
Found in Botswana, North-West, the Free State and the Northern, Western and Eastern Cape. In the west of its range, A. grandidentata occurs in karroid scrub on ironstone ridges, but further east it occurs on calcrete as well. Rainfall and winter temperatures throughout its range are low. Map 43.
Aloe grandidentata [family ALOACEAE]
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