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Aloe L.

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Exotic
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New Zealand
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L.
L.
1753
319-323
ICN
Aloe L.
genus
Aloe

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Aloe L.

Acaulescent or caulescent, ± succulent perennials, with or without offsets, stems if present, simple or branched. Leaves usually sharp-pointed, margins sinuate-dentate, in rosettes. Racemes terminal or lateral, capitate to long-cylindrical, or inflorescence corymbose. Flowers showy, yellowish or reddish, ± zygomorphic, pedicellate, bracts scarious; segments free or connate below into curved or straight tube, lobes spreading. Stamens 6, hypogynous, included or exserted. Ovary many-seeded. Capsule oblong to sub-globose. Seeds many, often winged. Spp. c. 330, from tropical and S. Africa, Madagascar, Arabia. Adventive Sp. 1.

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Aloe L.
New Zealand
Canterbury Land District
Aloe L.
New Zealand
Nelson Land District

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2bee900a-78ea-4929-b501-5a2527848bb2
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Names_Plants
1 January 2000
29 July 2011
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