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<mods:title>A synoptic review of the aloes (Asphodelaceae, Alooideae) of KwaZulu-Natal, an ecologically diverse province in eastern South Africa</mods:title>
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<mods:namePart>Klopper, Ronell R.</mods:namePart>
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<mods:namePart>Crouch, Neil R.</mods:namePart>
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<mods:namePart>Smith, Gideon F.</mods:namePart>
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<mods:date>2020</mods:date>
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NE
<taxonomicName LSID="C1CA307A-A31C-5976-A1F4-883A0AA8B1E8" authority="N. R. Crouch &amp; Gideon F. Sm." class="Liliopsida" family="Asphodelaceae" genus="Aloe" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Aloe sharoniae" order="Asparagales" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="sharoniae">Aloe sharoniae N.R.Crouch &amp; Gideon F.Sm.</taxonomicName>
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Syn.</paragraph>
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<taxonomicName authorityName="Glen &amp; D. S. Hardy" authorityYear="1987" class="Liliopsida" family="Asphodelaceae" genus="Aloe" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Aloe cooperi subsp. pulchra" order="Asparagales" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="subSpecies" species="cooperi" subSpecies="pulchra">Aloe cooperi subsp. pulchra</taxonomicName>
Glen &amp; D.S.Hardy.
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Common names.</paragraph>
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<normalizedToken originalValue="Sharons">Sharon's</normalizedToken>
grass aloe (English); sharonse-grasaalwyn (Afrikaans)
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Description.</paragraph>
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Grass aloe, 0.30-0.65 m high. Acaulescent plants or
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up to 0.15 m, erect, usually solitary, rarely with offshoots at ground level to form small groups, dried leaves not persistent.
<emphasis bold="true" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Leaves</emphasis>
distichous, semi-erect to decurved, deciduous, green, usually without spots on upper surface, with copious white tubercles each bearing a hair-like process at base on lower surface, obscurely lineate, narrowly attenuate, 30-44(-82) cm long, 1.6-2.6(-3.9) cm wide at base, distinctly keeled, strongly V-shaped in cross section; margin narrow, white, cartilaginous, with rubbery, hair-like, ivory to greenish-white teeth in basal quarter to third only, 3-5 mm long, 1-2 mm apart at mid-leaf; exudate clear, drying clear.
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0.33-0.59 m high, erect, simple.
<emphasis bold="true" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Raceme</emphasis>
capitate to slightly elongate, 3.0-9.5 cm long, 7.5-9.5 cm wide, dense.
<emphasis bold="true" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Floral bracts</emphasis>
23-30 mm long, 6-8 mm wide, clasping the pedicel.
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33-43 mm long.
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:
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bright orange-red, yellowish-brown to purplish-brown tipped, 25-35 mm long, 6-8 mm across ovary, narrowing towards mouth, roundly trigonous, basally stipitate and narrowing into pedicel; outer segments free almost to base;
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">stamens</emphasis>
not or very slightly exserted;
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">style</emphasis>
only slightly exserted.
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Flowering time.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="1">February-March.</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Habitat.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Open grassland on all slope aspects.</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Diagnostic characters.</paragraph>
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<taxonomicName class="Liliopsida" family="Asphodelaceae" genus="Aloe" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Aloe sharoniae" order="Asparagales" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="sharoniae">
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is distinguished from other grass aloes in KwaZulu-Natal with strongly keeled leaves (
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Aloe cooperi</emphasis>
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and
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) by the distichous leaves (30-44 cm long) that have no marginal teeth in the upper ⅔ and that are basally covered with white tuberculate maculations on the lower surface. It is further characterised by the floral bracts that clasp the pedicels (not flat as in
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). The inflorescence (0.33-0.59 m) is longer than the leaves. Flowers are bright orange-red, yellowish-brown to purplish-brown tipped and 25-35 mm long, with the mouth not bilabiate or upturned.
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Conservation status.</paragraph>
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Least Concern (
<bibRefCitation author="Von Staden, L" journalOrPublisher="Aloe" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" publicationUrl="http://redlist.sanbi.org" refId="B58" refString="Von Staden, L, 2014b. Aloesharoniae N.R.Crouch &amp; Gideon F.Sm. National Assessment: Red List of South African Plants version 2017.1. http://redlist.sanbi.org" title="Aloesharoniae N. R. Crouch &amp; Gideon F. Sm. National Assessment: Red List of South African Plants version 2017.1." url="http://redlist.sanbi.org" year="2014 b">Von Staden 2014b</bibRefCitation>
).
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Distribution.</paragraph>
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Sparse. Limited to KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa and Eswatini, although this species may also occur in southern Mozambique (Fig.
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).
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<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Figure 39.</emphasis>
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Aloe sharoniae</emphasis>
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. Photo: N.R. Crouch.
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