Aloe zebrina Baker

Smith, Gideon F., Figueiredo, Estrela, Klopper, Ronell R. & Crouch, Neil R., 2012, Summer-flowering species of maculate Aloe L. (Asphodelaceae: Alooideae) in the Aloe zebrina-complex from South Africa: reinstatement of four names, and description of A. braamvanwykii Gideon F. Sm. & Figueiredo, Bradleya 30, pp. 155-166 : 161-162

Aloe zebrina Baker in Trans. Linn. Soc. London, Bot. 1: 264 (1878).

Type: Angola, Loanda District, Barra do Bengo , Quicuxe towards Cacuaco, July 1854, F. Welaeitsch 3721 ( LISU, lecto.; BM!, G!, K!, isolecto.)

A. bamangaeatensis Schönland in Rec. Albany Mus. 1: 122 (1904).

Type: Botswana, Palapye Road, March 1904, S. Schönland 1656 ( GRAA 7223 ) ( GRA, holo.; PRE, iso.!)

A. baumii Engl. & Gilg in O.Warburg (ed.), Kunene-Sambesi Expedition: 191 (1903).

Type: Angola, Chirumbu, 14 October 1899, H. Baum 275 ( B, holo.; E, iso.)

A. constricta Baker in J. Linn. Soc., Bot. 18: 168 (1881).

Type: Mozambique, near Sena , 8 April 1860, J. Kirk 34 ( K, holo.!)

A. lugardiana Baker in Bull. Misc. Inform., Keae 1901: 135 (1901).

Type: Botswana, Botletle River , near Sibetuane’s Drift, 30 June 1897, E.J. Lugard 2 ( K, holo.!)

A. platyphylla Baker in Trans. Linn. Soc. London, Bot. 1: 264 (1878).

Type: Angola, Pungo Andongo, 1879, F. Welaeitsch 3722 ( K, lecto.; BM, G, LISU, isolecto.)

Diagnostic characters: This aloe sometimes occurs as solitary plants, but usually forms dense groups. Leaves are sometimes more distinctly spotted on the lower surface than the upper surface (Figure 8). Inflorescences are 1.0–1.6(–2.0) m high and branched from above the middle. Flowers are 30–35 mm long and dull red, with a dull whitish border on the outer perianth segments.

Distribution: Angola (Bengo, Cuando-Cubango, Cuanza Sul, Cunene, Huambo, Huíla, Malange, Moxico), Botswana, western Mozambique, Malawi, northern Namibia, South Africa (North-West), Zambia, Zimbabwe.

Habitat: Variety of veld types and soil, mostly grassland and thickets on dry hills. Also abundant in open Colophospermum mopane woodland.