Classification
Class
Magnoliopsida Brongn.
Order
Asparagales Link
Family
Asphodelaceae Juss.
Genus
Aloe L.
 Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Aloe maculata All., Auctarium synops. meth. stirp. horti reg. Taurine 13 (1773)
Synonymy:
  • = Aloe perfoliata var. saponaria Aiton (1789)
  • ≡ Aloe saponaria (Aiton) Haw., Trans. Linn. Soc. London 7: 17 (1804)
 Description

Plant acaulescent, densely caespitose, or a caulescent basal rosette. Leaves 12–20 in a dense rosette, 15–30 × 5–12 cm, c. 5 mm thick, lanceolate, erect and spreading, ± recurved near apex, flat to ± canaliculate, dark green or purple-tinged, with glaucous frosting and numerous white oblong spots in irregular transverse bands, margins cartilaginous, sinuate-dentate with brown horny pungent teeth 3–5 mm long and c. 10 mm distant. Scapes simple or branched, 40–100 cm high, racemes 10–12 × 12–16 cm, densely capitate. Flowers yellow, salmon-pink, orange to red, erect, later drooping; pedicels 35–45 mm long, bracteate; segments 3.5–4.5 cm long, connate below with tube twice as long as spreading lobes. Capsule 2.5–4 cm long, globose-trigonous.

[From: Healy and Edgar (1980) Flora of New Zealand. Volume 3 as Aloe saponaria (Aiton) Haw.]

 Biostatus
Exotic
 Bibliography
Allioni, C. 1773: Auctarium ad Synopsim Methodicam Stirpium Horti Reg. Taurinensis.
de Lange, P.J.; Gardner, R.O.; Sykes, W.R.; Crowcroft, G.M.; Cameron, E.K.; Stalker, F.; Christian, M.L.; Braggins, J.E. 2005: Vascular flora of Norfolk Island: some additions and taxonomic notes. New Zealand Journal of Botany 43(2): 563–596.
Haworth, A.H. 1804: A new arrangement of the genus Aloe, with a chronological sketch of the progressive knowledge of that genus, and of other succulent genera. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 7: 1–28.