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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="9EA428D096C85D3B8548893C1723CC01" docLanguage="en" docName="PhytoKeys 142: 1-88" docOrigin="PhytoKeys 142" docSource="http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.142.48365" docTitle="Aloe suprafoliata Pole-Evans" 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:title>PhytoKeys</mods:title>
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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="162487019" LSID="urn:lsid:plazi:treatment:9EA428D096C85D3B8548893C1723CC01" httpUri="http://treatment.plazi.org/id/9EA428D096C85D3B8548893C1723CC01" lastPageNumber="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">
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<taxonomicName LSID="9EA428D0-96C8-5D3B-8548-893C1723CC01" authority="Pole-Evans" class="Liliopsida" family="Asphodelaceae" genus="Aloe" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Aloe suprafoliata" order="Asparagales" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="suprafoliata">Aloe suprafoliata Pole-Evans</taxonomicName>
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Common names.</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Book aloe (English); boekaalwyn (Afrikaans); icena, umhlabandlazi (Zulu).</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Description.</paragraph>
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Acaulescent plants or rarely with short
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<emphasis bold="true" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">stem</emphasis>
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, up to 0.5 m high, erect or procumbent; rosettes solitary, sometimes in small groups.
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<emphasis bold="true" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Leaves</emphasis>
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distichous in young plants becoming densely rosulate, widely spreading to recurved, bluish-green to bluish-grey, more milky bluish-grey on lower surface, turning reddish-brown near apex, unspotted, obscurely lineate, texture smooth, lanceolate-acuminate, 30-40 cm long, 5-7 cm wide, with
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<normalizedToken originalValue="±">+/-</normalizedToken>
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8 cm dried twisted apex; margin with deltoid, sometimes bifid, reddish-brown teeth, 2-5 mm long, 5-10 mm apart; exudate clear.
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<emphasis bold="true" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Inflorescence</emphasis>
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0.6-2.0 m high, erect, simple.
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<emphasis bold="true" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Raceme</emphasis>
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conical to cylindrical-acuminate, up to 25 cm long, 10 cm wide, rather dense.
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<emphasis bold="true" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Floral bracts</emphasis>
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15-20 mm long, 9-13 mm wide.
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<emphasis bold="true" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Pedicels</emphasis>
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14-20 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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red, blue-grey tipped in bud, becoming rose-pink to scarlet red, greenish tipped, with a bloom, 33-50 mm long, 6-7 mm across ovary and throughout, cylindrical-trigonous, straight; outer segments free to base;
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">stamens</emphasis>
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not or very slightly exserted;
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">style</emphasis>
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exserted 1-2 mm.
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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">May-July.</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">Usually occurs in cracks in rocks or near sheer cliffs, along or near top of mountains, on rocks or rocky slopes in montane grassland or in places where soil is virtually absent or too thin to support other vegetation. Most localities receive frequent mist.</paragraph>
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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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<taxonomicName class="Liliopsida" family="Asphodelaceae" genus="Aloe" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Aloe suprafoliata" order="Asparagales" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="suprafoliata">
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Aloe suprafoliata</emphasis>
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can be distinguished from other virtually acaulescent, non-maculate aloes in KwaZulu-Natal (
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<taxonomicName class="Liliopsida" family="Asphodelaceae" genus="Aristaloe" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Aristaloe aristata" order="Asparagales" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="aristata">
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Aristaloe aristata</emphasis>
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</taxonomicName>
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,
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<taxonomicName authority="var. chabaudii" class="Liliopsida" family="Asphodelaceae" genus="Aloe" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Aloe chabaudii subsp. var. var. chabaudii" order="Asparagales" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="variety" species="chabaudii" subSpecies="var." variety="chabaudii">Aloe chabaudii var. chabaudii</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 gerstneri" order="Asparagales" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="gerstneri">
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Aloe gerstneri</emphasis>
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</taxonomicName>
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,
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<taxonomicName authorityName="Baker" authorityYear="1880" class="Liliopsida" family="Asphodelaceae" genus="Aloe" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Aloe pratensis" order="Asparagales" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="pratensis">
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Aloe pratensis</emphasis>
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</taxonomicName>
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,
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<taxonomicName class="Liliopsida" family="Asphodelaceae" genus="Aloe" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Aloe reitzii subsp. var. var. vernalis" order="Asparagales" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="variety" species="reitzii" subSpecies="var." variety="vernalis">Aloe reitzii var. vernalis</taxonomicName>
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and
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<taxonomicName authorityName="Pillans" authorityYear="1934" class="Liliopsida" family="Asphodelaceae" genus="Aloe" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Aloe vanbalenii" order="Asparagales" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="vanbalenii">
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Aloe vanbalenii</emphasis>
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</taxonomicName>
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) by usually having solitary rosettes with leaves always distichous in young plants, becoming densely rosulate. Although other aloes also have distichous leaves when juveniles, this character persists for longer in
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<taxonomicName lsidName="A. suprafoliata" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rank="species" species="suprafoliata">
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">A. suprafoliata</emphasis>
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</taxonomicName>
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. It is further characterised by having widely spreading to recurved, bluish-green to bluish-grey leaves (30-40
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5-7 cm) with rather pungent marginal teeth. The inflorescence is erect, 0.6-2.0 m high and simple. The narrow racemes (up to 25
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10 cm) have a silvery sheen with the flower buds hidden by large rounded silvery green floral bracts (15-20 mm long). Pedicels are erect (14-20 mm). Flowers are rose-pink to scarlet-red, up to 50 mm long and pencil-shaped.
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Conservation status.</paragraph>
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Least Concern (
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<bibRefCitation author="Raimondo, D" journalOrPublisher="South African National Biodiversity Institute, Pretoria" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" refId="B37" refString="Raimondo, D, Von Staden, L, Foden, W, Victor, JE, Helme, NA, Turner, RC, Kamundi, DA, Manyama, PA, 2009. Red List of South African Plants. Strelitzia 25. South African National Biodiversity Institute, Pretoria." title="Red List of South African Plants. Strelitzia 25. South African National Biodiversity Institute, Pretoria." year="2009">Raimondo et al. 2009</bibRefCitation>
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).
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Distribution.</paragraph>
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Northern KwaZulu-Natal and just into eastern Mpumalanga in South Africa, as well as Eswatini (Fig.
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<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 43" captionStartId="F43" captionText="Figure 43. Aloe suprafoliata. Photo: N. R. Crouch." figureDoi="10.3897/phytokeys.142.48365.figure43" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/388269" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">43</figureCitation>
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).
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<caption doi="10.3897/phytokeys.142.48365.figure43" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/388269" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" start="Figure 43" startId="F43">
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<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Figure 43.</emphasis>
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<taxonomicName class="Liliopsida" family="Asphodelaceae" genus="Aloe" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Aloe suprafoliata" order="Asparagales" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="suprafoliata">
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Aloe suprafoliata</emphasis>
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. Photo: N.R. Crouch.
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