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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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NE
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Description.</paragraph>
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Grass aloe. Acaulescent plants or
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short, up to 0.15 m; rosettes usually solitary or suckering to form small groups; with persistent dried leaves.
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distichous, deciduous, erect to spreading, dull green, upper surface usually without spots, sometimes sparingly spotted, lower surface usually copiously white-spotted near base, lorate-acuminate, 35-50 cm long, 5-6 cm wide; margin with soft, white teeth,
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0.5 mm long, 5-15 mm apart; exudate clear.
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0.5 m high, erect, simple.
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capitate, up to 7 cm long, 9-10 cm wide, dense.
<emphasis bold="true" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Floral bracts</emphasis>
15 mm long, 7 mm wide.
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25 mm long.
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:
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apricot-yellow, only rarely red or yellow, greenish tipped, 28-30 mm long, 8-10 mm across ovary, slightly widening towards middle, narrowing towards mouth, base tapering into pedicel, straight, cylindrical; outer segments free for 23-25 mm;
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and
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exserted to 1 mm.
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="1">October-November.</paragraph>
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can be distinguished from other grass aloes in KwaZulu-Natal with unkeeled leaves that are wider than 3.5 cm (
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,
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Aloe ecklonis</emphasis>
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,
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and
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), by the rosette of erect to spreading, distichous leaves (35-50
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5-6 cm), with the upper surface usually without spots and the lower surface usually copiously white-spotted near the base. It is further characterised by the unbranched inflorescences (
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0.5 m high) that have dense, capitate racemes (up to 7 cm long) with relatively long (28-30 mm long), usually apricot-yellow and greenish tipped, tubular flowers.
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Vulnerable. Threats include habitat loss owing to silviculture, agriculture and urban expansion, as well as overgrazing and alien invasives. There is also a potential threat from coal mining (L. von Staden pers. comm.).</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Distribution.</paragraph>
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Only known from the area on the border between KwaZulu-Natal and Mpumalanga in South Africa and just entering south-western Eswatini (Fig.
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Near Wakkerstroom and Volksrust in KwaZulu-Natal,
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merges into intermediates with
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Salm-Dyck (
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).
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<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Figure 16.</emphasis>
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. Photo: J.E. Burrows.
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