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foliis non carinatis differt floribus perbrevioribus in racemo capitato densiore dispositis coloreque florum non aurantiaca.
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Table 1. Differences between 
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Small to medium-sized, herbaceous, slowgrowing, succulent, perennial, grass aloe, total height excluding inflorescence ± 
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tall, as tall as or exceeding the height of rosette; each rosette producing up to 3 racemes, peduncle sparsely sterile bracteate, denser towards apical part of inflorescence, bracts varying from thickened, somewhat fleshy, light yellowish green with very broad, white margins to light salmon-brown, papery, central part same colour as peduncle when succulent, many-nerved, 
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in diameter, apically truncate, dry remains of tepals persisting around fruit for a long time, dehiscing loculicidally, chartaceous to woody when dry. Seeds, dark greyish brown, angled, laterally compressed, with off-white wing stretching around periphery of seed, 
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long. Flowering time January to March, peaking in February. Chromosome number unknown. (See 
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and 
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.)
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Figure 1. Densely capitate raceme showing the characteristic flower colour of 
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. Photo: Neil Crouch.
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Figure 2. Known geographical distribution range of 
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,..
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Figure 3. Flowering clump of 
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in its grassland habitat, Babanango, South Africa. Photo: Neil Crouch.
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<paragraph blockId="2.[124,1268,1646,1727]" box="[788,1267,1676,1698]" pageId="2" pageNumber="105">Figure 4. Geoff Nichols at the type locality with</paragraph>
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a non-flowering 
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, March 2009. Photo: Neil Crouch.
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<subSubSection pageId="3" pageNumber="106" type="conservation">
<paragraph blockId="3.[121,666,741,1549]" box="[121,477,741,762]" pageId="3" pageNumber="106">Habitat and conservation status</paragraph>
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Plants were collected in full sun in open rocky grassland of Northern Zululand Sourveld (SVl 22) (
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) at an altitude of ± 
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, growing in a rocky, clay-loam substrate. Although low rock outcrops are present at the 
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locality the aloes were not observed to take particular refuge amongst these. Plants found growing in association with 
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were 
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, 
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, 
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and 
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in the vicinity of low rocky sites, and 
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, 
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, 
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and 
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in more exposed grasslands. About 80 individual plants or clumps (
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) were found at the 
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locality (
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), occupying an area of approximately 
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. This represents the full extent of the currently known population. An earlier record (Nichols s.n. 
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) indicates that a decade ago small clumps were frequent along the R68 roadside in that region. However, four excursions along the R68 made during the past two flowering seasons failed to yield a single specimen; notably, the verge is now largely degraded. Although further populations may in time be found, particularly in the nearby Ophate Game Reserve, it would be prudent to presently regard the species’ Red List status as Data Deficient.
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<subSubSection pageId="3" pageNumber="106" type="etymology">
<paragraph blockId="3.[121,666,1586,1724]" box="[121,225,1586,1607]" pageId="3" pageNumber="106">Eponymy</paragraph>
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This species is named for Mr Geoff Nichols of South Africa (
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), who made the first known collection of this new species, and who through initiating and establishing the Silverglen Nursery in Durban pioneered the conservation-through-cultivation of many endangered medicinal and rare plants of KwaZulu-Natal and Pondoland.
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<paragraph blockId="3.[726,1269,275,355]" box="[726,1065,275,296]" pageId="3" pageNumber="106">Additional specimen examined</paragraph>
<paragraph blockId="3.[726,1269,275,355]" pageId="3" pageNumber="106">
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2831 (
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): On road verge 
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(–AC), 
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s.n. (
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), 
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.
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