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E 
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<paragraph id="29201A348294B65375921A0054F9E47D" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Common names.</paragraph>
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aloe (English); neilse-aalwyn (Afrikaans).
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<paragraph id="310931A4AB094F663DDA5532207C7FD2" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Description.</paragraph>
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Grass aloe. 
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up to 0.95 m long, decumbent to erect, branched mainly from base, forming robust offshoots along its length, without persistent dried leaves. 
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deciduous, densely rosulate, erectly spreading, green, with numerous elongated, white, somewhat tuberculate spots on both surfaces, deltoid to ovate-lanceolate, up to 43 cm long, up to 13.5 cm wide at base; margin narrow, cartilaginous, whitish, with small whitish, deltoid, irregularly spaced teeth, 1-2 mm long, 2-5 mm apart; leaf exudate clear, drying clear, not bitter. 
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0.6-0.8 m high, erect, simple. 
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capitate, 
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12 cm long, 10 cm wide, dense. 
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30 mm long, 7 mm wide. 
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30-45 mm long. 
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: 
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salmon-pink, green-tipped, 
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45 mm long, 10-13 mm across ovary, slightly narrowed above ovary, slightly constricted just before flared mouth, cylindrical-trigonous; outer segments free almost to base; 
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not or only slightly exserted; 
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exserted to 
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5 mm.
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<paragraph id="3CA51B688F93F9B2A146C1A49A333556" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">December-January.</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="C7ADDFAAE85FC1424A950AD732947685" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Habitat.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="7F379080B77F3BEFA5F0E26108B70D28" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Southeast-facing aspects in rocky grassland.</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="E54DCC7F683237D50B65D031948EC61C" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Diagnostic characters.</paragraph>
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can be distinguished from other grass aloes in KwaZulu-Natal with unkeeled leaves that are wider than 3.5 cm (
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, 
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, 
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and 
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), by the large rosettes of erectly spreading, rosulate leaves (up to 43 
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13.5 cm), with copious white tuberculate spots on both surfaces. It is further characterised by the long, sprawling, leafless stems of up to almost 1 m long, which branch at the base and form offshoots along its length. The unbranched inflorescences (0.6-0.8 m high) have dense, capitate racemes (
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12 cm long) with large (
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45 mm long), salmon-pink, rather straight flowers. This is the largest and most robust species of the leptoaloe group, also known as 'slender 
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(
<bibRefCitation id="D7B6DBE05E216A62AEE2CE58428E5B28" DOI="https://doi.org/10.4102/abc.v40i1.186" author="Klopper, RR" journalOrPublisher="Bothalia" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" pagination="117 - 120" refId="B24" refString="Klopper, RR, Smith, GF, 2010. Aloe neilcrouchii, a new robust leptoaloe from KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Bothalia 40: 117 - 120, DOI: https://doi.org/10.4102/abc.v40i1.186" title="Aloe neilcrouchii, a new robust leptoaloe from KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa." url="https://doi.org/10.4102/abc.v40i1.186" volume="40" year="2010">Klopper and Smith 2010</bibRefCitation>
; 
<bibRefCitation id="8D16CAFBAAF89240E251434920A38513" author="Smith, GF" journalOrPublisher="Flowering Plants of Africa" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" pagination="10 - 15" refId="B46" refString="Smith, GF, Crouch, NR, Klopper, RR, Condy, G, 2011. Aloe neilcrouchii. Flowering Plants of Africa 62: 10 - 15" title="Aloe neilcrouchii." volume="62" year="2011">Smith et al. 2011</bibRefCitation>
).
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<paragraph id="14513D9D4AB3435B71EC3A65E5FB4805" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Conservation status.</paragraph>
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Endangered. Threats include habitat fragmentation and destruction owing to commercial silvicultural and agricultural practices (
<bibRefCitation id="54D46C6D0EEF1DB73C327A380653A247" author="Johnson, IM" journalOrPublisher="Phytotaxa" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" publicationUrl="http://redlist.sanbi.org/species.php?species=2206-820" refId="B22" refString="Johnson, IM, Harvey, J, Von Staden, L, 2011. Aloeneilcrouchii Klopper &amp; Gideon F.Sm. National Assessment: Red List of South African Plants version 2013.1. http://redlist.sanbi.org/species.php?species=2206-820" title="Aloeneilcrouchii Klopper &amp; Gideon F. Sm. National Assessment: Red List of South African Plants version 2013.1." url="http://redlist.sanbi.org/species.php?species=2206-820" year="2011">Johnson et al. 2011</bibRefCitation>
).
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<paragraph id="775100B34329F27E67501EDA2633A64A" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Distribution.</paragraph>
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Known from only two localities near Karkloof and New Hanover, in the midlands of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa (Fig. 
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. Photo: N.R. Crouch.
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