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Issue: Vol. 482 No. 2: 29 January 2021
Type: Correspondence
Published: 2021-01-29
DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.482.2.9
Page range: 208–212
Abstract views: 22
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Reinstatement of Aloe davyana var. subolifera (Asphodelaceae subfam. Alooideae), a distinctive variety of an endemic South African aloe

Department of Botany, Nelson Mandela University, P.O. Box 77000, Port Elizabeth, 6031 South Africa.
Foundational Biodiversity Science Division, South African National Biodiversity Institute, Private Bag X101, Pretoria, 0001 South Africa. Department of Plant and Soil Sciences, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, 0002 South Africa.
Biodiversity Research and Monitoring Directorate, South African National Biodiversity Institute, P.O. Box 701265, Overport, Durban, 4067 South Africa. School of Chemistry & Physics, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, 4041 South Africa.
Department of Botany, Nelson Mandela University, P.O. Box 77000, Port Elizabeth, 6031 South Africa.
Aloe davyana var. subolifera Alooideae Asphodelaceae reinstatement South Africa taxonomy Monocots

Abstract

Following the reinstatement of Aloe davyana Schönland (1905: 288) (Fig. 1A) as an accepted taxon at the rank of species, rather than at that of variety under A. greatheadii Schönland (1904: 121) (Smith et al. 2020), we here reinstate A. davyana var. subolifera Groenewald (1939: t. 732). Aloe davyana var. subolifera was accepted by all aloe researchers until it was placed in the synonymy of a broadened concept of A. greatheadii var. davyana (Schönl.) Glen & Hardy (1987: 490), a view with which we do not agree.