CHR 513055 – Aloe arborescens Mill.
Data provider:
Allan Herbarium
Barcode:
CHR 513055
Specimen type:
Sheet
Database record added:
17 July 1997
Database record updated:
07 April 2015
Components
Primary component
Active identification
Determined name:
Aloe arborescens
Determiner:
Sykes WR
Identification date:
1996-05-29 (Verbatim: 29-MAY-1996)
Preferred name:
Aloe arborescens Mill.
Division:
Magnoliophyta
Class:
Liliopsida
Order:
Liliales
Family:
Asphodelaceae
Identification type:
Determination
Collection events
Primary collection event
Collection event type:
Field
Standard locality
Location:
Unknown
Verbatim locality:
Unknown
Verbatim collector:
Verbatim date:
Other collection events
Collection event type:
Cultivated
Standard locality
Location:
Banks Peninsula, Diamond Harbour, Te Ara Crescent, on top of roadside bank
Verbatim locality:
Banks Peninsula, Diamond Harbour, Te Ara Crescent, on top of roadside bank
Verbatim collector:
Sykes WR 135/96
Standardised collector:
William R. Sykes
Verbatim date:
29-MAY-1996
Start date:
1996-05-29
Land District:
Canterbury Land District
Country:
New Zealand
Notes:
Large succulent shrub about 1.5m high, widespreading; habit dense. Leaves to at least 50cm long x 8cm wide at base, clasping stem, to about 1.7cm thick at base, curving, with antrorse marginal yellow-green spines. Inflorescence erect, to at least 70m high at early anthesis. Bracts green to orange, more or less triangular on lower part of scape and to at least 3.5cm long, those amongst flowers 2-2.5cm long and more or less elliptic. Perianth about 4cm long; outer segments linear, orange-red or red, free to base; inner segments equal to outer, linear-elliptic, whitish with red central band; all tepals with greenish tips. Stamens and style yellow; latter nearly equal to tepals. Anthers orange. Sheets A - C.
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