Aloe maculata All. (Asphodelaceae) in the Free State Province, South Africa, and resurrection of ‘var. ficksburgensis’

Gideon F. Smith; Estrela Figueiredo; Ronell R. Klopper; Neil R. Crouch

doi:10.25223/brad.n30.2012.a5

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1 October 2012 Aloe maculata All. (Asphodelaceae) in the Free State Province, South Africa, and resurrection of ‘var. ficksburgensis’

Gideon F. Smith, Estrela Figueiredo, Ronell R. Klopper, Neil R. Crouch

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Bradleya, 2012(30):13-18 (2012). https://doi.org/10.25223/brad.n30.2012.a5

Abstract

Although morphologically variable and widely distributed in southern Africa, Aloe maculata All. is well defined by a suite of characters that includes maculate (spotted) leaves, flattopped inflorescences and uniformly coloured flowers. Being a predominantly mild-climate species, it rarely ventures into the more severe southern African interior escarpment, where one of its variants, var. ficksburgensis Reynolds — to date only validly published in combination with the name Aloe saponaria (Aiton) Haw. — occur. We here make the new combination at subspecific level, A. maculata subsp. ficksburgensis (Reynolds) Gideon F.Sm. & Figueiredo, and record its occurrence near Winburg in central South Africa, about 80 km west of previously known records.

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Gideon F. Smith, Estrela Figueiredo, Ronell R. Klopper, and Neil R. Crouch "Aloe maculata All. (Asphodelaceae) in the Free State Province, South Africa, and resurrection of ‘var. ficksburgensis’," Bradleya 2012(30), 13-18, (1 October 2012). https://doi.org/10.25223/brad.n30.2012.a5

Published: 1 October 2012

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