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Aloe cameronii Hemsl. [family ALOACEAE]
Date Updated: 26 July 2007
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Zambesiaca
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
FZ, Vol 12, Part 3, page 48, (2001) Author: S. Kativu
Names
Aloe cameronii Hemsl. [family ALOACEAE], in Bot. Mag. 129: t. 7915 (1903). —Berger in Engler, Pflanzenr. IV, fam. No. 38, III, II (Heft 33): 263 (1908). —Reynolds, Aloes Nyasaland: 34 (1954); Aloes Trop. Africa & Madagascar: 348, pl. 79, figs. 351–354 (1966). —Binns, First Check List Herb. Fl. Malawi: 62 (1968). —West, Aloes Rhodesia: 87, pl. 28a, pl. 29a, pl. 30a & b (1974); Aloes Zimbabwe, rev. Kimberley: 95 (1992). —Court, Succ. Fl. South. Africa: 126 (1981). Type: Malawi, near Blantyre, 1894; cult. Kew, fl. ii.1903, Cameron s.n. (K, holotype).
Information
Shrub up to 1.5 m high, rarely to 2.5 m when supported by surrounding vegetation (see West, loc. cit.: 88]. Stem erect, branching from the base and above; branches numerous, ascending or the basal ones shortly decumbent, all clothed in persistent leaf remains. Leaves in a lax rosette, erect-spreading; lamina to 40–50 cm long, 5–7 cm wide near the base, lanceolate-attenuate, uniformly green or occasionally with a few whitish spots especially on young leaves, becoming bright coppery-red in the dry season; margin with pungent deltoid minutely brown-tipped teeth 2–4 mm long and 8–15 mm apart. Inflorescences 1–3 from each leaf rosette, erect to 1 m tall above the rosette; peduncle 1–3-branched; branches curving upwards and subtended by pale scarious deltoid bracts c. 5 × 10 mm, with scattered sterile bracts below the racemes. Racemes 10–30 × 5–8 cm, cylindrical, ± densely flowered; bracts 2–3 × 3–4 mm, ovate, scarious, pale brown; pedicels 3–8 mm long. Perianth bright glossy red with paler tips, to orange or occasionally creamy-yellow, 35–45 mm long, slightly curved, 5–7 mm in diameter across the ovary, widening slightly towards the mouth to 6–10 mm in diameter, cylindric; outer segments free to nearly halfway, with tips spreading. Stamens and stigma exserted 4–10 mm, yellow, with anthers reddish-orange. Capsule and seeds not seen.
Date Updated: 26 July 2007
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Zambesiaca
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
FZ, Vol 12, Part 3, page 48, (2001) Author: S. Kativu
Names
Aloe cameronii Hemsl. [family ALOACEAE], in Bot. Mag. 129: t. 7915 (1903). —Berger in Engler, Pflanzenr. IV, fam. No. 38, III, II (Heft 33): 263 (1908). —Reynolds, Aloes Nyasaland: 34 (1954); Aloes Trop. Africa & Madagascar: 348, pl. 79, figs. 351–354 (1966). —Binns, First Check List Herb. Fl. Malawi: 62 (1968). —West, Aloes Rhodesia: 87, pl. 28a, pl. 29a, pl. 30a & b (1974); Aloes Zimbabwe, rev. Kimberley: 95 (1992). —Court, Succ. Fl. South. Africa: 126 (1981). Type: Malawi, near Blantyre, 1894; cult. Kew, fl. ii.1903, Cameron s.n. (K, holotype).
Information
Shrub up to 1.5 m high, rarely to 2.5 m when supported by surrounding vegetation (see West, loc. cit.: 88]. Stem erect, branching from the base and above; branches numerous, ascending or the basal ones shortly decumbent, all clothed in persistent leaf remains. Leaves in a lax rosette, erect-spreading; lamina to 40–50 cm long, 5–7 cm wide near the base, lanceolate-attenuate, uniformly green or occasionally with a few whitish spots especially on young leaves, becoming bright coppery-red in the dry season; margin with pungent deltoid minutely brown-tipped teeth 2–4 mm long and 8–15 mm apart. Inflorescences 1–3 from each leaf rosette, erect to 1 m tall above the rosette; peduncle 1–3-branched; branches curving upwards and subtended by pale scarious deltoid bracts c. 5 × 10 mm, with scattered sterile bracts below the racemes. Racemes 10–30 × 5–8 cm, cylindrical, ± densely flowered; bracts 2–3 × 3–4 mm, ovate, scarious, pale brown; pedicels 3–8 mm long. Perianth bright glossy red with paler tips, to orange or occasionally creamy-yellow, 35–45 mm long, slightly curved, 5–7 mm in diameter across the ovary, widening slightly towards the mouth to 6–10 mm in diameter, cylindric; outer segments free to nearly halfway, with tips spreading. Stamens and stigma exserted 4–10 mm, yellow, with anthers reddish-orange. Capsule and seeds not seen.
Date Updated: 26 July 2007
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Zambesiaca
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
FZ, Vol 12, Part 3, page 48, (2001) Author: S. Kativu
Names
Aloe cameronii Hemsl. [family ALOACEAE], in Bot. Mag. 129: t. 7915 (1903). —Berger in Engler, Pflanzenr. IV, fam. No. 38, III, II (Heft 33): 263 (1908). —Reynolds, Aloes Nyasaland: 34 (1954); Aloes Trop. Africa & Madagascar: 348, pl. 79, figs. 351–354 (1966). —Binns, First Check List Herb. Fl. Malawi: 62 (1968). —West, Aloes Rhodesia: 87, pl. 28a, pl. 29a, pl. 30a & b (1974); Aloes Zimbabwe, rev. Kimberley: 95 (1992). —Court, Succ. Fl. South. Africa: 126 (1981). Type: Malawi, near Blantyre, 1894; cult. Kew, fl. ii.1903, Cameron s.n. (K, holotype).
Information
Shrub up to 1.5 m high, rarely to 2.5 m when supported by surrounding vegetation (see West, loc. cit.: 88]. Stem erect, branching from the base and above; branches numerous, ascending or the basal ones shortly decumbent, all clothed in persistent leaf remains. Leaves in a lax rosette, erect-spreading; lamina to 40–50 cm long, 5–7 cm wide near the base, lanceolate-attenuate, uniformly green or occasionally with a few whitish spots especially on young leaves, becoming bright coppery-red in the dry season; margin with pungent deltoid minutely brown-tipped teeth 2–4 mm long and 8–15 mm apart. Inflorescences 1–3 from each leaf rosette, erect to 1 m tall above the rosette; peduncle 1–3-branched; branches curving upwards and subtended by pale scarious deltoid bracts c. 5 × 10 mm, with scattered sterile bracts below the racemes. Racemes 10–30 × 5–8 cm, cylindrical, ± densely flowered; bracts 2–3 × 3–4 mm, ovate, scarious, pale brown; pedicels 3–8 mm long. Perianth bright glossy red with paler tips, to orange or occasionally creamy-yellow, 35–45 mm long, slightly curved, 5–7 mm in diameter across the ovary, widening slightly towards the mouth to 6–10 mm in diameter, cylindric; outer segments free to nearly halfway, with tips spreading. Stamens and stigma exserted 4–10 mm, yellow, with anthers reddish-orange. Capsule and seeds not seen.
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