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Issue: Vol. 423 No. 3: 6 November 2019
Type: Article
Published: 2019-11-06
DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.423.3.6
Page range: 182–186
Abstract views: 21
PDF downloaded: 1

Aloe ×gemmelliae (Asphodelaceae subfam. Alooideae), a new natural hybrid between A. broomii and A. grandidentata from the southwestern Free State province, South Africa

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.
Aloe hybrid South Africa Asparagales Monocots

Abstract

Although most species of Aloe Linnaeus (1753: 319) flower in winter, the comparatively few taxa of this genus that occur naturally above South Africa’s climatically severe Great Escarpment tend to flower during spring when temperatures are on the increase. Two such species are A. broomii Schönland (1907: 137) and A. grandidentata Salm-Dyck (1822: 3 [species no. 2]).