Aloe suffulta Reynolds
Creators: name: Thiede, Joachim
name: Campbell-Barker, Theo Peter
name: Hargreaves, Bruce J.
name: Smith, Gideon F.
name: Figueiredo, Estrela
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Liliopsida
Asparagales
Asphodelaceae
Aloe
Aloe suffulta

description: <i>Aloe suffulta</i> Reynolds <i>Aloe suffulta</i> is a short-stemmed maculate <i>Aloe</i> unique in the genus by its long inflorescences climbing up to 2.5m in supporting bushes. It is documented with specimens from northeastern South Africa (northern KwaZulu-Natal), western and southern Mozambique, and southeastern Zimbabwe where it occurs in shady conditions under bushes on river banks, commonly in alluvial sandy soils subject to flooding after heavy rains, and with high summer temperatures of up to 45°C (Reynolds, 1937; Reynolds, 1950: 343–345; Jeppe, 1969: 103; Plowes, 1972: 39, ill. p. 56; Archibald, 1974: 98, ill. p. 96; West, 1974: 63, ill. plates 14d &amp; 15b; Percy-Lancaster, 1976; Kimberley, 1992: plates 14d &amp; 15b; Glen &amp; Hardy, 2000: 89, 91; Smith &amp; Crouch, 2001: 19; Carter, 2001: 48; Court, 2010: 246, 250; Carter <i>et al</i>., 2011: 509; Van Wyk &amp; Smith, 2014: 268–269). The first and as yet sole record of <i>Aloe suffulta</i> from Malawi was made by Campbell-Barker in the 1970s in southern Malawi, northwest of Nsanje “within 25 miles of the Boma”, growing sparsely in sandy soil on a high river bank of a seasonal stream. He prepared a habitat sketch (Figure 8) and brought two plants into cultivation, neither of which thrived, but documented one of them with a habit sketch (Figure 9; published earlier in Smith &amp; Crouch, 2001: 21 and in Lane, 2004: 45). These two drawings (Figures 8 &amp; 9) are the sole permanent record of Campbell-Barker’s find. The <i>Aloe suffulta</i> record was published much later (Campbell-Barker, 1998: 9) and adopted by Msekandiana &amp; Mlangeni (2002: 34), Lane (2004: 44–45), and Klopper <i>et al</i>. (2012: 89–91), but omitted from the specimen-based <i>Flora zambesiaca</i> aloe treatment of Carter (2001) due to the lack of preserved material. Lane (2004: 44) gives the locality as “about 20km north of Nsanje”, but it is actually about 20–25km northwest of Nsanje in what is now the Mwabvi Wildlife Reserve (Nsanje District, Southern Province; Figure 1: 3), and plants should be sought on river banks along the Mwabvi River. The type of <i>Aloe suffulta</i> is a collection of G.W. Reynolds from Mozambique, with the number <i>2457</i>. The holotype is at Herb. PRE, consisting of two sheets (PRE0683983-1 and PRE0683983-2). Several isotypes exist elsewhere.
description: Published as part of <i>Thiede, Joachim, Campbell-Barker, Theo Peter, Hargreaves, Bruce J., Smith, Gideon F. &amp; Figueiredo, Estrela, 2020, Notes on three aloes of Malawi: Aloe cam's, A. lateritia, and A. suffulta (Asphodelaceae subfam. Alooideae), pp. 247-253 in Bradleya 38</i> on page 252, DOI: 10.25223/brad.n38.2020.a23, http://zenodo.org/record/7871694
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