Summer-flowering species of maculate Aloe L. (Asphodelaceae: Alooideae) in the Aloe zebrina-complex from South Africa: reinstatement of four names, and description of A. braamvanwykii Gideon F. Sm. & Figueiredo
Author
Smith, Gideon F.
Biosystematics Research and Biodiversity Collections Division, South African National Biodiversity Institute, Private Bag X 101, Pretoria, 0001 South Africa & H. G. W. J. Schweickerdt Herbarium, Department of Plant Science, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, 0002 South Africa & Centre for Functional Ecology, Departamento de Ciências da Vida, Universidade de Coimbra, 3001 - 455 Coimbra, Portugal.
G.Smith@sanbi.org.za
Author
Figueiredo, Estrela
Centre for Functional Ecology, Departamento de Ciências da Vida, Universidade de Coimbra, 3001 - 455 Coimbra, Portugal & Department of Botany, P. O. Box 77000, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, Port Elizabeth, 6031 South Africa
estrelafigueiredo@hotmail.com
Author
Klopper, Ronell R.
Biosystematics Research and Biodiversity Collections Division, South African National Biodiversity Institute, Private Bag X 101, Pretoria, 0001 South Africa & H. G. W. J. Schweickerdt Herbarium, Department of Plant Science, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, 0002 South Africa
R.Klopper@sanbi.org.za
Author
Crouch, Neil R.
Ethnobotany Unit, South African National Biodiversity Institute, P. O. Box 52099, 4007 Berea Road, South Africa & School of Chemistry and Physics, University of KwaZulu-Natal, 4041 Durban, South Africa
N.Crouch@sanbi.org
text
Bradleya
2012
2012-10-01
30
155
166
journal article
10.25223/brad.n30.2012.a19
Aloe lettyae
Reynolds
in
J. S. Afr. Bot.
3: 137 (1937)
.
Type:
South Africa
,
Limpopo Province
,
Duiwelskloof
,
26 March 1937
,
G.W. Reynolds
2339 (
PRE
,
holo.
!;
BOL, iso.!)
Diagnostic characters
: This aloe occurs as solitary plants. Leaves are obscurely spotted on the lower surface. Inflorescences are 1.75–2.00 m high and branched from about the middle with the branches distinctly rounded and gracefully curved (Figure 4). Flowers are
38–42 mm
long and rosered, with pale margins and a remarkably large globose base.
Distribution
: It is only known from the area around Duiwelskloof and Magoebaskloof, Limpopo, South Africa.
Habitat
: Long grass and among bushes and trees on eastern slopes of hills and mountains.