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Description
Genus Aloe
Plants
succulent, shrubby or arborescent
, scapose
. Stems erect
, clambering
or ascending
, branched or not. Leaves succulent, crowded, often rosulate or distichous; blade
margins
spiny-toothed or entire. Inflorescences axillary
or terminal
, paniculate
to more often racemose, dense, bracteate
. Flowers usually nodding
; perianth red to yellow; tepals connate
basally to almost entirely into tube
; stamens 3 or 6; style slender; pedicel not articulate
. Capsules papery
to woody. x
= 7.
Species 300 or more: introduced
; primarily s and tropical
Africa; also Madagascar, Arabian peninsula, and Atlantic islands (Madeira
, Canary, and Cape
Verde) ; naturalized
in the Mediterranean region, India, and China.[1]
Habitat
Ecology:
List of Habitats
:3.5Shrubland - Subtropical/Tropical Dry
6Rocky areas (eg. inland cliffs
, mountain peaks)
Taxonomy
- Kingdom:
Plantae
(
)
- Plants
- Phylum:
Magnoliophyta
()
- Flowering Plants
- Class:
Liliopsida
()
- Order:
Asparagales
()
- Family:
Noctuoidea
()
- Genus:
Aloe
()
- Linnaeus, Sp. Pl. 1: 319. 1753; Gen. Pl. ed. 5, 150. 1754.
- Aloe [Arabic alloeh, a name for these or similar plants]
- Specific epithet:
erinacea
- D.S.Hardy
- Botanical name: - Aloe erinacea D.S.Hardy
- Specific epithet:
erinacea
- D.S.Hardy
- Genus:
Aloe
(
- Family:
Noctuoidea
(
- Order:
Asparagales
(
- Class:
Liliopsida
(
- Phylum:
Magnoliophyta
(
Notes
Publishing author : Hardy Publication : Bothalia 10(2): 366 (1971); et in Aloe, 10(2): 22 (1972).An accepted name in the RHS Horticultural Database.
Similar Species
Members of the genus Aloe
ZipcodeZoo has pages for 1188 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus. Here are just 100 of them:
A. aageodonta · A. abhaica · A. abyssicola · A. abyssinica · A. acinacifolia · A. aculeata (Red Hot Poker Aloe) · A. acuminata · A. acutissima (Aloe) · A. acutissima var. antanimorensis (Aloe) · A. adigratana · A. aethiopica · A. affinis (Aloe) · A. africana (Uitenhage Aloe) · A. africana f. variegata · A. agavefolia · A. agrophila · A. ahmarensis · A. albicans · A. albida · A. albida × haworthioides · A. albida x saundersii · A. albiflora (White-Flowered Aloe) · A. albiflora x littoralis · A. albispina · A. albocincta · A. albopicta · A. albovestita · A. aldabrense · A. aldabrensis · A. alexandrei · A. alfredii · A. alooides (Aloe) · A. altilinea · A. altimatsiatrae · A. amanensis · A. ambigens · A. ambrensis · A. americana · A. amicorum · A. ammophila · A. amoena · A. amudatensis (Aloe) · A. andohahelensis · A. andongensis (Aloe) · A. andongensis var. repens · A. andringitrensis (Aloe) · A. angelica (Aloe) · A. angiensis · A. angolensis · A. angulata · A. angusta · A. angustifolia · A. anivoranoensis · A. ankaranensis · A. ankoberensis · A. antandroi · A. antandroy · A. antonii · A. antoninii · A. antsingyensis · A. arabica · A. arachnoidea · A. arachnoides · A. arborea · A. arborescens (Candelabra Plant) · A. arborescens blue-leaved · A. arborescens 'Compton' · A. arborescens early-flowering · A. arborescens 'Eloff' · A. arborescens 'Frutescens' · A. arborescens 'Gold Rush' · A. arborescens 'Huntley' · A. arborescens 'Jack Marais' · A. arborescens 'John Winter' · A. arborescens late-flowering · A. arborescens 'Mathews' · A. arborescens Mill. var. frutescens (Salm-Dyck) Link · A. arborescens Mill. var. milleri A.Berger · A. arborescens 'Pearson' · A. arborescens 'Philip le Roux' · A. arborescens 'Rycroft' · A. arborescens 'Variegata' · A. arborescens × ferox · A. arborescens yellow-flowered · A. archeri · A. arenicola (Aloe) · A. argenticauda · A. argyrostachys · A. aristata (Guinea Fowl Aloe) · A. aristata 'Cathedral Peak' · A. aristata x gasteria · A. armatissima · A. aspera · A. asperifolia (Aloe) · A. asperiuscula · A. asperula · A. atherstonei · A. atrovirens · A. attenuata · aloe attenuata x shawii 'Blue Glow'
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Further Reading
- Hardy, D.S. 1984. Flowering Plants of Africa 48(1&2): Plate 1885.
- Jankowitz, W.J. 1972. Die Verspreiding van die Genus Aloe in die distrikte Lüderitz, Warmbad en Bethanien in die suide van Suidwes-Afrika. Master’s thesis, University of Orange Free State.
- Jankowitz, W.J. 1977. The distribution of the genus Aloe in the districts Bethanien, Luderitz and Warmbad, South West Africa. Madoqua 10(1): 33-53.
- Jenkins, T. 1998. Aloe erinacea. British Cactus and Succulent Journal 16(1): 36-37.
- Jeppe, B. 1970. South African Aloes. Purnell and Sons, Cape Town.
- Reynolds, G.W. 1950. The Aloes of South Africa. Book Fund. Johannesburg.
- Smith, G.F., Steyn, E.M.A., Victor, J.E., Crouch, N.R., Golding, J. and Hilton-Taylor, C. 2000. The conservation status of Aloe in South Africa: An updated synopsis. Bothalia 30:2.
- Williamson, G. 1995. Two new Tylecodon species (Crassulaceae) from the southern Namib desert (Namibia) and the Richtersveld (Cape Province, Republic of South Africa). Cactus and Succulent Journal (U.S.) 67: 114.
- Moran, R. 1992. Aloe wild in California. Cact. Succ. J. (Los Angeles) 64: 55-56.
- Reynolds, G. W. 1982. The Aloes of South Africa, ed. 4. Rotterdam.
Notes
Contributors
- Bisby FA, Roskov YR, Orrell TM, Nicolson D, Paglinawan LE, Bailly N, Kirk PM, Bourgoin T, van Hertum J, eds (2008). Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2008 Annual Checklist Taxonomic Classification. CD-ROM; Species 2000: Reading, U.K.
- Loots, S. 2004. In IUCN 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCNRedList.org. Downloaded July 19, 2008.
- World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 5780810
- Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: Kew-297366
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 14975614
- Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:529439-1
- International Plant Names Index (IPNI) ID: 529439-1
- IUCN ID: 46723
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 717122
Footnotes
- "Aloe". in Flora of North America Vol. 26 Page 410. Oxford University Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]
