Aloe peglerae

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Overview

Endangered

Common Names

Description

Family Aloaceae

Trees , shrubs , and succulents, perennial , simple to sparsely branched, rhizomatous , some tuberous-thickened. Leaves simple, alternate, usually crowded at bases of stems or ends of branches, sessile; blade fleshy , margins often prickly, venation parallel. Inflorescences terminal , axillary , or lateral , spicate , racemose, or paniculate . Flowers 3-merous, short- to long-pedicellate, rarely sessile; perianth red, brown, yellow, orange, or whitish; tepals petaloid , connivent or connate basally to almost entirely into tube , sometimes fleshy; stamens sometimes 3, usually 6, exserted or included ; anthers dorsifixed , dehiscence antrorse ; pollen grains monosulcate; ovary 3-carpellate, placentation axile , usually with septal nectaries; style terminal; stigmas punctate , discoid , or 3-lobed. Fruits capsular , rarely baccate , dehiscence loculicidal, apical. Seeds usually winged or flattened.

Genera 5, species ca. 700 (1 genus, 2 species in the flora ) : all introduced ; Africa, Madagascar, Arabia, and Atlantic islands.

Aloaceae are closely related to and included by some authors in Liliaceae.

The juice of some Aloe species is used to make a purgative called bitter aloe; active ingredients include aloin and other anthraquinones . Additionally, the thick, mucilaginous gel of some species is widely used to treat minor thermal burns , itching, and sunburn.[1]

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.[2]

Physical Description

Habitat

Ecology: A stemless plant, growing singly or in small groups. Leaves about 30, in a compact rosette, curved inwards, having a reddish tint in hot weather, with the lower surface covered with a few sharp spines with white, tubercled bases . Inflorescence single, occasionally two or three, a densely-flowered, cylindrical raceme . Flowers tubular , reddish in bud, greenish cream tinged with red on opening. Flowering time July and August (Germishuizen 1997).

Grows in rocky places, often on gravelly quartzite. Confined mainly to the Magaliesberg range , usually on the northern slopes and summit, in scanty grassland and in areas with very little soil.


List of Habitats :3.5Shrubland - Subtropical/Tropical Dry

Biology

Growth

Culture: Space 15-18" apart.

Sunlight: Sun Exposure: Full Sun .

Moisture: Drought Tolerance: High

Temperature: Cold Hardiness: 9b, 10a, 10b, 11. (map)

Taxonomy

Notes

Publishing author : Schönland Publication : in Rec. Albany Mus. i. 120.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

• Gauteng Nature Conservation. Field observations and surveys. Results from Red Data plant project. Surveys of Krugersdorp populations were completed by staff of Witwatersrand Botanical Gardens (Andrew Hankey and Sharon Turner).
• Germishuizen, G. 1997. Wild Flowers of Northern South Africa. Fernwood Press, Vlaeberg.
• Hilton-Taylor, C. (compiler). 2000. 2000 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.
• IUCN. 2003. 2003 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. www.iucnredlist.org. Downloaded on 18 November 2003.
• Pfab, M. and Patterson, C. 1998. Aloe peglerae. TRAFFIC East/Southern Africa Species Update: No 2, 1998.
• Pfab, M.F. and Victor, J.E. 2002. Threatened plants of Gauteng, South Africa. South African Journal of Botany 68: 370-375.
• Scholes, M.A. 1988. A population study of Aloe peglerae in habitat. South African Journal of Botany 54(2): 137-139.
• Van Wyk, B.-E. and Smith, G. 1996. Guide to the Aloes of South Africa. Briza Publications Arcadia.
• 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.
• Pfab, M.F. (Gauteng Nature Conservation) & Victor, J. (National Botanical Institute) 2003. 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: 5758576
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: Kew-297790
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 14976122
• Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:529754-1
• International Plant Names Index (IPNI) ID: 529754-1
• IUCN ID: 39586
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 717247

Footnotes

1. Walter C. Holmes & Heather L. White "Aloaceae". in Flora of North America Vol. 26 Page 12, 15, 18, 20, 410. Oxford University Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]
2. "Aloe". in Flora of North America Vol. 26 Page 410. Oxford University Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]

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