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<document ID-DOI="http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.142.48365" ID-GBIF-Dataset="447d0c45-35c7-4aaa-b3b3-acbf7069da06" ID-PMC="PMC7082394" ID-Pensoft-Pub="1314-2003-142-1" ID-Pensoft-UUID="7B3A5CC9B82952B6B3E20C46E12DB4F1" ID-PubMed="32210671" ModsDocID="1314-2003-142-1" checkinTime="1584104974826" checkinUser="pensoft" docAuthor="Klopper, Ronell R., Crouch, Neil R., Smith, Gideon F. & van Wyk, Abraham E." docDate="2020" docId="73DE1315526952189CA29AB28D4EC7B4" docLanguage="en" docName="PhytoKeys 142: 1-88" docOrigin="PhytoKeys 142" docSource="http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.142.48365" docTitle="Aloe vryheidensis Groenew." docType="treatment" docVersion="4" id="7B3A5CC9B82952B6B3E20C46E12DB4F1" lastPageNumber="1" masterDocId="7B3A5CC9B82952B6B3E20C46E12DB4F1" masterDocTitle="A synoptic review of the aloes (Asphodelaceae, Alooideae) of KwaZulu-Natal, an ecologically diverse province in eastern South Africa" masterLastPageNumber="88" masterPageNumber="1" pageNumber="1" updateTime="1668139702755" updateUser="ExternalLinkService">
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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:roleTerm>Author</mods:roleTerm>
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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:roleTerm>Author</mods:roleTerm>
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<mods:namePart>van Wyk, Abraham E.</mods:namePart>
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<mods:title>PhytoKeys</mods:title>
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<mods:date>2020</mods:date>
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<mods:detail type="volume">
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<mods:number>142</mods:number>
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<mods:start>1</mods:start>
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<mods:url>http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.142.48365</mods:url>
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<mods:classification>journal article</mods:classification>
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<mods:identifier type="DOI">http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.142.48365</mods:identifier>
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<mods:identifier type="Pensoft-Pub">1314-2003-142-1</mods:identifier>
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<treatment ID-GBIF-Taxon="162487026" LSID="urn:lsid:plazi:treatment:73DE1315526952189CA29AB28D4EC7B4" httpUri="http://treatment.plazi.org/id/73DE1315526952189CA29AB28D4EC7B4" lastPageNumber="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">
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<taxonomicName LSID="73DE1315-5269-5218-9CA2-9AB28D4EC7B4" authority="Groenew." class="Liliopsida" family="Asphodelaceae" genus="Aloe" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Aloe vryheidensis" order="Asparagales" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="vryheidensis">Aloe vryheidensis Groenew.</taxonomicName>
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</paragraph>
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<subSubSection pageId="0" pageNumber="1" type="common names">
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Common names.</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Dolomite aloe, Vryheid aloe (English); bruinaalwyn (Afrikaans).</paragraph>
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<subSubSection pageId="0" pageNumber="1" type="description">
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Description.</paragraph>
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Acaulescent or arborescent plants or
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<emphasis bold="true" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">stem</emphasis>
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up to 2 m high, procumbent or shortly suberect, unbranched or sometimes branched at base; with persistent dried leaves; rosettes solitary or in small groups.
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<emphasis bold="true" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Leaves</emphasis>
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densely rosulate, arcuate-erect to slightly spreading and recurved, glaucous green to dark green with bluish or reddish tinge, without spots, texture smooth, lanceolate-attenuate, 40-80 cm long, 9-13 cm wide at base; margin red, subcorneous, with pungent, deltoid, straight, reddish teeth, 2-3 mm long, 10-15 mm apart; exudate drying yellow.
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<emphasis bold="true" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Inflorescences</emphasis>
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0.6-1.5 m high, oblique to erect, simple.
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<emphasis bold="true" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Raceme</emphasis>
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cylindrical, 30-40 cm long, 5-7 cm wide, erect, very dense.
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<emphasis bold="true" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Floral bracts</emphasis>
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8-15 mm long, 5-10 mm wide.
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<emphasis bold="true" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Pedicels</emphasis>
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absent.
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<emphasis bold="true" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Flowers</emphasis>
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:
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">perianth</emphasis>
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greenish-yellow to reddish in bud, rose-coloured or greenish-yellow to yellowish when mature, 8-20 mm long, 4-5 mm across ovary, widening to wide open mouth, campanulate-cylindrical; outer segments free to base;
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">stamens</emphasis>
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exserted 6-15 mm;
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">style</emphasis>
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exserted 7-17 mm.
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</paragraph>
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<subSubSection pageId="0" pageNumber="1" type="flowering time">
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Flowering time.</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="1">July-August.</paragraph>
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</subSubSection>
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<subSubSection pageId="0" pageNumber="1" type="habitat">
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Habitat.</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Usually on alkaline soils derived from shale or dolomite (on sandstone at Vryheid).</paragraph>
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</subSubSection>
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<subSubSection pageId="0" pageNumber="1" type="description">
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Diagnostic characters.</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="1">
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<taxonomicName class="Liliopsida" family="Asphodelaceae" genus="Aloe" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Aloe vryheidensis" order="Asparagales" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="vryheidensis">
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Aloe vryheidensis</emphasis>
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</taxonomicName>
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is one of only two aloes indigenous to KwaZulu-Natal that have sessile campanulate flowers with dark nectar in a simple inflorescence. It differs from
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<taxonomicName class="Liliopsida" family="Asphodelaceae" genus="Aloe" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Aloe spicata" order="Asparagales" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="spicata">
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Aloe spicata</emphasis>
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</taxonomicName>
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in having procumbent to shortly sub-erect stems (not erect) that are sometimes absent, arcuate-erect to slightly spreading leaves (not recurved) and an inflorescence with the peduncle oblique (not erect), then bent upwards directly below the erect raceme. The racemes of
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<taxonomicName class="Liliopsida" family="Asphodelaceae" genus="Aloe" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Aloe vryheidensis" order="Asparagales" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="vryheidensis">
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Aloe vryheidensis</emphasis>
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</taxonomicName>
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are narrow (5-7 cm wide), but slightly wider than those of
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<taxonomicName class="Liliopsida" family="Asphodelaceae" genus="Aloe" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Aloe spicata" order="Asparagales" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="spicata">
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Aloe spicata</emphasis>
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</taxonomicName>
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, with pinkish-brown flowers (not greenish-yellow). The ovary has red lines longitudinally down the 3 broad angles.
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<subSubSection pageId="0" pageNumber="1" type="conservation status">
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Conservation status.</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Least Concern (L. von Staden pers. comm.).</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Distribution.</paragraph>
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Mountainous areas of northern KwaZulu-Natal, Mpumalanga and Limpopo, South Africa (Fig.
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<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 49" captionStartId="F49" captionText="Figure 49. Aloe vryheidensis. Photo: G. Nichols." figureDoi="10.3897/phytokeys.142.48365.figure49" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/388275" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">49</figureCitation>
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).
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<caption doi="10.3897/phytokeys.142.48365.figure49" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/388275" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" start="Figure 49" startId="F49">
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<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Figure 49.</emphasis>
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<taxonomicName class="Liliopsida" family="Asphodelaceae" genus="Aloe" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Aloe vryheidensis" order="Asparagales" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="vryheidensis">
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Aloe vryheidensis</emphasis>
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. Photo: G. Nichols.
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