Aloe caesia Salm-Dyck
Creators: name: Figueiredo, Estrela
name: Smith, Gideon F.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Liliopsida
Asparagales
Asphodelaceae
Aloe
Aloe caesia

description: <b> <i>Aloe</i> × <i>caesia</i> Salm-Dyck, <i>Verz. Art. Aloe</i>: 29 (1817a)</b> . Haworth: 46 (1819); Salm-Dyck: 14 (1834) . <b>Neotype</b>: Illustration of <i>Aloe caesia</i> Salm-Dyck in <i>Monogr. gen. aloes</i> [Fasciculus <b>7</b>. Figure 5] (§ 17. Figure 3) (1863), <b>here designated</b>. [For the illustration see: http://plantillustrations.org/ill ustration.php?id_illustration=184065&amp;SID=0&amp;mobile=0&amp;size=1] Synonyms: <i>Aloe</i> × <i>caesia</i> var. [α] <i>patula</i> Salm-Dyck, <i>Verz. Art. Aloe</i>: 29 (1817a). <b>Type</b>: as for <i>Aloe</i> × <i>caesia</i>. <i>Aloe</i> × <i>caesia</i> var. [Β] <i>elatior</i> Salm-Dyck, <i>Verz. Art. Aloe</i>: 29 (1817a). <b>Type</b>: as for <i>Aloe</i> × <i>caesia</i>. <i>Aloe</i> × <i>caesia</i> var. [γ] <i>disticha</i> Salm-Dyck, <i>Verz. Art. Aloe</i>: 29 (1817a). <b>Type</b>: as for <i>Aloe</i> × <i>caesia</i>. <i>Aloe africana</i> Salm-Dyck, <i>Cat. rais</i>.: (1817b: 62) non Mill. <i>nom. illeg</i>. <b>Type</b>: as for <i>Pachidendron principis</i> Haw. <i>Pachidendron</i> × <i>principis</i> Haw., <i>Rev. pl. succ</i>.: 37 (1821). <b>Neotype</b>:Illustration of <i>Aloe salm-dyckiana</i> Schult. &amp; Schult.f. in <i>Monogr. gen. aloes</i> [Fasciculus <b>5</b>. Figure 7] (§ 27. Figure 1) (1849), <b>here designated</b>. [For the illustration see: http://plantillustrations.org/illustration. php?id_illustration=184095&amp;SID=0&amp;mobile=0&amp;size=1] <i>Aloe</i> × <i>salm-dyckiana</i> Schult. &amp; Schult.f. in <i>J.J. Roemer &amp;J.A. Schultes, Syst. Veg</i>., ed. 15 bis <b>7</b>: 710 (1829). <b>Type</b>: as for <i>Pachidendron principis</i> Haw. <i>Aloe</i> × <i>fulgens</i> Tod., <i>Hort. bot. panorm</i>. <b>2</b>:40, Tab. 33 (1889). <b>Lectotype:</b> Illustration of <i>Aloe fulgens</i> Tod. in <i>Hort. bot. panorm</i>. [Tab 33] (1889), <b>here designated</b>. <i>Aloe</i> × <i>salm-dyckiana</i> var. <i>fulgens</i> (Tod.) A.Berger in <i>H.G.A.Engler (ed.), Pflanzenr</i>. IV. 38. III. II. Heft <b>33</b>: 302 (1908). <b>Type</b>: as for <i>Aloe</i> × <i>fulgens</i> Tod. <i>Aloe</i> × <i>principis</i> (Haw.) Stearn in <i> Cact. J. (Croydon) <b>7</b>:42 (1938)</i> . <b>Type</b>:as for <i>Pachidendron principis</i> Haw. Description Medium-sized to large, shrubby plant up to 1.5(–2)m tall. <i>Stem</i> branched from the base, erect to slightly leaning under weight of rosette, clothed in persistent, twisted, down-curved, dried leaves. <i>Leaves</i> densely rosulate, spreading to recurved, glaucous to dark green, without spots, surfaces generally smooth, lanceolate-ensiform, 30–40cm long, 5–10cm wide at base, lower surface sometimes with few teeth in median line near apex, occasionally with few scattered teeth; margin generally concolorous, with pungent, greenish white to reddish brown decurved, deltoid teeth. <i>Inflorescence</i> usually multiple panicles produced simultaneously and successively, to 1m tall, erect, few- to 8-branched from below middle, branches erect to leaning under weight of densely packed flowers. <i>Peduncle</i> stout;withseveralprominent, scattered, sterile bracts below racemes. <i>Racemes</i> cylindrical to slightly acuminate, 50–80cm long, ± 10cm wide, usually very dense; buds horizontal, flowers pendulous at anthesis. <i>Floral bracts</i> ovate-deltoid. <i>Flowers</i>: pedicellate; <i>perianth</i> orange to red to scarlet red, straight, cigar-shaped enlarged in the middle to slightly clavate-cylindric; tips of segments spreading to slightly flared; <i>stamens</i> well-exserted, exserted part deep orange to crimson red to purplish; <i>style</i> well-exserted. <i>Chromosome number</i>: 2 <i>n</i> = 14, for both <i>Aloe caesia</i> and <i>A. salmdyckiana</i> (Resende, 1937; Riley &amp; Majumdar, 1979: 49).
description: Published as part of <i>Figueiredo, Estrela &amp; Smith, Gideon F., 2019, Aloe × caesia Salm-Dyck (Asphodelaceae) is the correct name of the common hybrid aloe [Aloe arborescens Mill. × A. ferox Mill.] from the southern Cape, South Africa, pp. 31-40 in Bradleya 2019 (37)</i> on page 38, DOI: 10.25223/brad.n37.2019.a25, http://zenodo.org/record/7851567
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