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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: Dry areas, prefers flat to gentle slopes
on limestone pavement. Altitude
of 500–800 m.
[2]
List of Habitats
: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:
jawiyon
- S.J.Christie, D.P.Hannon & Oakman ex A.G.Mill.
- Botanical name: - Aloe jawiyon S.J.Christie, D.P.Hannon & Oakman ex A.G.Mill.
- Specific epithet:
jawiyon
- S.J.Christie, D.P.Hannon & Oakman ex A.G.Mill.
- Genus:
Aloe
(
- Family:
Noctuoidea
(
- Order:
Asparagales
(
- Class:
Liliopsida
(
- Phylum:
Magnoliophyta
(
Notes
Publishing author : S.J.Christie, D.P.Hannon & Oakman ex A.G.Mill. Publication : Ethnofl. Soqotra Archipelago 723 (297, 234; fig.) 2004
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
- Miller, A.G. and Morris, M. 2004. Ethnoflora of Soqotra. Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, Edinburgh.
- 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, F.A., Y.R. Roskov, M.A. Ruggiero, T.M. Orrell, L.E. Paglinawan, P.W. Brewer, N. Bailly, J. van Hertum, eds (2007). Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2007 Annual Checklist. Species 2000: Reading, U.K.
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed December 31, 2007. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from 4 providers.
- Miller, A. 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: 5987821
- Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: Kew-329684
- Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:77065898-1
- International Plant Names Index (IPNI) ID: 77065898
- IUCN ID: 44897
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 1027999
Footnotes
- "Aloe". in Flora of North America Vol. 26 Page 410. Oxford University Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]
- Miller, A. 2004. In IUCN 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCNRedList.org. Downloaded July 19, 2008. [back]
