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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="BFBD1F2C4AB35F0587C6F37C0A5A2A66" docLanguage="en" docName="PhytoKeys 142: 1-88" docOrigin="PhytoKeys 142" docSource="http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.142.48365" docTitle="Aloe umfoloziensis Reynolds 1937" 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: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:namePart>van Wyk, Abraham E.</mods:namePart>
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<mods:date>2020</mods:date>
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<mods:number>142</mods:number>
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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="162487013" LSID="urn:lsid:plazi:treatment:BFBD1F2C4AB35F0587C6F37C0A5A2A66" httpUri="http://treatment.plazi.org/id/BFBD1F2C4AB35F0587C6F37C0A5A2A66" lastPageNumber="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">
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NE
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<taxonomicName LSID="BFBD1F2C-4AB3-5F05-87C6-F37C0A5A2A66" authority="Reynolds" authorityName="Reynolds" authorityYear="1937" class="Liliopsida" family="Asphodelaceae" genus="Aloe" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Aloe umfoloziensis" order="Asparagales" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="umfoloziensis">Aloe umfoloziensis Reynolds</taxonomicName>
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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">Groot-bontaalwyn (Afrikaans); icena, ilicena (Zulu).</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Description.</paragraph>
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Acaulescent plant or with short
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<emphasis bold="true" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">stem</emphasis>
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, up to 0.4 m high; rosettes sometimes solitary, usually suckering to form small groups; with persistent dried leaves.
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<emphasis bold="true" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Leaves</emphasis>
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densely rosulate, spreading or deflexed, upper surface green to brownish-green, with numerous dull white oblong spots, irregularly scattered or sometimes in undulating interrupted transverse bands, lower surface paler green, without spots or obscurely to distinctly spotted, usually somewhat lineate, lanceolate-attenuate, up to 20-30 cm long, 8-9 cm wide, with dried twisted apex; margin with horny, pungent deltoid brown teeth, 3-5 mm long, 10-15 mm apart; exudate honey-coloured, drying purplish.
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<emphasis bold="true" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Inflorescence</emphasis>
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1.0-1.5 m high, erect, 5- to 8-branched from about middle or above, lowest branch sometimes rebranched.
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<emphasis bold="true" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Racemes</emphasis>
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capitate, apex rounded, 7-9 cm long, 7-9 cm wide, rather dense.
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<emphasis bold="true" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Floral bracts</emphasis>
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8-12 mm long.
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<emphasis bold="true" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Pedicels</emphasis>
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10-15 mm long.
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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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coral-red, 33-38 mm long, 8-9 mm across ovary, abruptly constricted above ovary to form subglobose basal swelling, widening towards wide-open mouth, slightly decurved, laterally compressed; outer segments free for 8-9 mm;
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">stamens</emphasis>
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and
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">style</emphasis>
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exserted 3-5 mm.
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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 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">Low-lying sub-tropical open savannah, open grassland and on rocky places for some distance along rivers and watercourses.</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 authorityName="Reynolds" authorityYear="1937" class="Liliopsida" family="Asphodelaceae" genus="Aloe" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Aloe umfoloziensis" order="Asparagales" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="umfoloziensis">
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Aloe umfoloziensis</emphasis>
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</taxonomicName>
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can be distinguished from other maculate aloes in KwaZulu-Natal (
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<taxonomicName authorityName="Reynolds" authorityYear="1937" class="Liliopsida" family="Asphodelaceae" genus="Aloe" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Aloe dewetii" order="Asparagales" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="dewetii">
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Aloe dewetii</emphasis>
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</taxonomicName>
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,
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<taxonomicName authority="subsp. maculata" class="Liliopsida" family="Asphodelaceae" genus="Aloe" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Aloe maculata subsp. maculata" order="Asparagales" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="subSpecies" species="maculata" subSpecies="maculata">Aloe maculata subsp. maculata</taxonomicName>
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,
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<taxonomicName authorityName="Reynolds" authorityYear="1937" class="Liliopsida" family="Asphodelaceae" genus="Aloe" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Aloe mudenensis" order="Asparagales" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="mudenensis">
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Aloe mudenensis</emphasis>
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</taxonomicName>
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,
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<taxonomicName authorityName="Schoenland" authorityYear="2020" class="Liliopsida" family="Asphodelaceae" genus="Aloe" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Aloe parvibracteata" order="Asparagales" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="parvibracteata">
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Aloe parvibracteata</emphasis>
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</taxonomicName>
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,
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<taxonomicName authorityName="I. Verd. & D. S. Hardy" authorityYear="1965" class="Liliopsida" family="Asphodelaceae" genus="Aloe" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Aloe prinslooi" order="Asparagales" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="prinslooi">
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Aloe prinslooi</emphasis>
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</taxonomicName>
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,
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<taxonomicName authorityName="Reynolds" authorityYear="1936" class="Liliopsida" family="Asphodelaceae" genus="Aloe" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Aloe pruinosa" order="Asparagales" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="pruinosa">
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Aloe pruinosa</emphasis>
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</taxonomicName>
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,
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<taxonomicName authorityName="Reynolds" authorityYear="1937" class="Liliopsida" family="Asphodelaceae" genus="Aloe" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Aloe suffulta" order="Asparagales" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="suffulta">
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Aloe suffulta</emphasis>
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</taxonomicName>
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,
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<taxonomicName authorityName="Gideon F. Sm. & N. R. Crouch" authorityYear="2006" class="Liliopsida" family="Asphodelaceae" genus="Aloe" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Aloe vanrooyenii" order="Asparagales" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="vanrooyenii">
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Aloe vanrooyenii</emphasis>
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</taxonomicName>
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and
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<taxonomicName authorityName="Gideon F. Sm. & Figueiredo" authorityYear="2018" class="Liliopsida" family="Asphodelaceae" genus="Aloe" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Aloe viridiana" order="Asparagales" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="viridiana">
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Aloe viridiana</emphasis>
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</taxonomicName>
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) by the tall, 5- to 8-branched, sometimes rebranched, inflorescence (1.0-1.5 m high) with rather small round-topped capitate racemes (7-9 cm long and wide) and pedicels that are 10-15 mm long. Flowers are coral-red, 33-38 mm long and with a globose basal swelling (8-9 mm diameter). Leaves are spreading or deflexed, up to 20-30
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<normalizedToken originalValue="×">x</normalizedToken>
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8-9 cm and densely spotted on the upper surface, while the paler lower surface is without spots or obscurely to distinctly spotted, usually somewhat lineate. Marginal teeth are 3-5 mm long.
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Conservation status.</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Near-threatened. Threats include habitat loss and degradation owing to trampling by livestock, erosion and agriculture (L. von Staden pers. comm.).</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Distribution.</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="1">
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Northern KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa, as well as south-eastern Eswatini and just entering southern Mozambique (Fig.
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<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 45" captionStartId="F45" captionText="Figure 45. Aloe umfoloziensis. Photo: G. Nichols." figureDoi="10.3897/phytokeys.142.48365.figure45" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/388271" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">45</figureCitation>
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).
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<caption doi="10.3897/phytokeys.142.48365.figure45" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/388271" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" start="Figure 45" startId="F45">
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<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Figure 45.</emphasis>
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<taxonomicName authorityName="Reynolds" authorityYear="1937" class="Liliopsida" family="Asphodelaceae" genus="Aloe" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Aloe umfoloziensis" order="Asparagales" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="umfoloziensis">
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Aloe umfoloziensis</emphasis>
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. Photo: G. Nichols.
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