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Issue: Vol. 468 No. 1: 23 October 2020
Type: Correspondence
Published: 2020-10-23
DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.468.1.13
Page range: 155–158
Abstract views: 31
PDF downloaded: 1

Yet two more firsts for Mary E. Barber (1818–1899), and a new synonym for the largest aloe, Aloidendron barberae (Asphodelaceae subfam. Alooideae)

Department of Botany, Nelson Mandela University, P.O. Box 77000, Port Elizabeth, 6031 South Africa.
Department of Botany, Nelson Mandela University, P.O. Box 77000, Port Elizabeth, 6031 South Africa.
Aloidendron Aloe Barber Monocots

Abstract

Walker et al. (2019: 12) suggested that the name Aloe zeyheri (Barber 1870a: 80) (Asphodelaceae subfam. Alooideae) was merely proposed and not validly published for the species of tree aloe today known as Aloidendron barberae (Dyer 1874a: 566) Klopper & Gideon F. Sm. in Grace et al. (2013: 9) (Fig. 1A–C). Aloidendron barberae occurs naturally along the eastern seaboard of South Africa, and slightly inland, and caused quite a stir in botanical circles when it was first and more or less simultaneously collected in South Africa’s Eastern Cape and KwaZulu-Natal provinces.