Aloe framesii Bolus (1933: 140)

Klopper, Ronell R., Grace, Olwen M., Klopper, Arrie W., Smith, Gideon F. & Van, Abraham E., 2023, A taxonomic revision of Aloe sect. Purpurascentes (Asphodelaceae subfam. Alooideae), Phytotaxa 628 (1), pp. 1921-1935 : 1921-1935

1. Aloe framesii Bolus (1933: 140)

Homotypic synonym:— Aloe microstigma subsp. framesii (L.Bolus) Glen & Hardy (2000: 107) . Lectotype (designated here):— SOUTH AFRICA. Northern Cape: Coastal belt north of Port Nolloth, August 1929, fl. hort. Frames July–August 1930, P. Ross Frames BOL19186 (lectotype BOL BOL140202 ! [https://plants.jstor.org/stable/viewer/10.5555/al.ap.specimen.bol140202]).

Epitype (designated here):— SOUTH AFRICA. Northern Cape: Coastal belt north of Port Nolloth, fl. hort Frames , no date, P. Ross Frames BOL19186 (epitype BOL BOL140201 ! [https://plants.jstor.org/stable/viewer/10.5555/al.ap.specimen.bol140201]) .

Note regarding type:— There are two specimens at Herb. BOL labelled ‘ fld. hort. Frames BOL19186 ’ ( BOL140201 and BOL140202 ). Both sheets are annotated with a red ‘ Type’ label. Sheet BOL140201 consists of an inflorescence, two leaves, and an envelope with pressed perianth segments and dissected flowers. The specimen labels of this sheet does not contain a date or collector, but merely states ‘ Coastal belt north of Port Nolloth, fld. hort. Frames’ , followed by ‘ June 29’ that is struck through. Sheet BOL140202 consists of a single inflorescence, and envelopes containing mounted floral bracts and perianth segments. The label of this sheet indicates that it was collected by P. Ross Frames in August 1929 and flowered in his garden in July–August 1930 (initially written as ‘1929’, but struck through with ‘1930’ written above it) when the specimen was evidently made. A hand-written note is attached to the sheet, containing descriptive information that was based on a plant collected at the type locality by M. Schlechter and that flowered in the Kennilworth, Cape Town, garden of Mr Frames in August 1933 (a specimen collected in 1932 by Schlechter from Port Nolloth, ‘ex hort. Frames, Aug. 1933 ’, is present in Herb. BOL). In the protologue Bolus (1933: 140) states that the description of A. framesii is based on a plant collected in Namaqualand in August 1929 and that flowered in the garden of Mr Frames in June 1930. The sheet BOL140202 most closely matches the information provided in the protologue and is here designated as lectotype. Since the lectotype only consists of an inflorescence, sheet BOL140201 (also containing leaves) is here designated as epitype to compliment the lecotype.