PLANTAE / PHANEROGAMAE / ANTHOPHYTA / ASPARAGALES / ASPHODELACEAE / ALOOIDEAE / ASTROLOBA / SPIRALIS
Plant with many densely leaved stems, stems erect, gradually becoming decumbent with age, to 30 cm in length and 3.5-4 cm in diam. Leaves erect, crowded, smooth and deep green in color, in five spiral rows, lanceolate-deltoid, acuminate, and with a very sharp tip, 3 cm long and 15 mm wide towards the base, face of leaves almost flat, slightly concave in the younger leaves, back of leaves rounded and from about the middle to the tip obliquely keeled, the margins and keel roughened with very minute deltoid teeth. Peduncle slender, the raceme with 30 or more flowers; pedicels short; bracts lanecolate-deltoid, 5-6 mm long; perianth about 13 mm long and somewhat hexagonal, of a peculiar, rough, white, spongy texture, green lined, the very short, dull yellow segments slightly spreading and obtuse. From: Brown, JR. 1939. Notes on Apicras. Cact. Succ. J. (Los Angeles) 9(6): 83-84. [All rights reserved] As: Apicra spiralis (L.) Baker
Succulent, perennial herb. Stem up to 0.2 m high, erect or eventually sprawling, proliferating from base, covered with spiralling leaves for whole length. Leaves in 5 straight rows or imbricate, green, reddening when exposed to sun, ovate-lanceolate, smooth, not shining, apex with sharp point. Inflorescence lax, erect. Flowers white with yellow lobes, midribs pale green, outer tepals inflated below. Flowering time Nov.-June. From: Klopper, RR; Smith, GF; Bayer, MB; Bredenkamp, CL. 2019. Asphodelaceae. In: CL Bredenkamp (ed.), A Flora of the Eastern Cape Province. Strelitzia 41(3): 1647-1680. South African National Biodiversity Institute, Pretoria. [CC BY]
Uitewaal Caulescent succulent to 20 cm. Leaves light to dark green, not pungent, smooth sometimes striate. Flowers in lax racemes, erect, white with yellow tepals, midribs pale green, outer tepals inflated below. From: Meyer, NL; Smith, GF. 2012. Asphodelaceae: Astroloba Uitewaal. In: J Manning & P Goldblatt (eds), Plants of the Greater Cape Floristic Region 1: The Core Cape flora. Strelitzia 29: 71-71. South African National Biodiversity Institute, Pretoria. [CC BY]
The flowers are very distinct from the usual smooth flowers of other known Apicras. From: Brown, JR. 1939. Notes on Apicras. Cact. Succ. J. (Los Angeles) 9(6): 83-84. [All rights reserved] As: Apicra spiralis (L.) Baker
Karroid flats and lower slopes. Lower Karoo. From: Klopper, RR; Smith, GF; Bayer, MB; Bredenkamp, CL. 2019. Asphodelaceae. In: CL Bredenkamp (ed.), A Flora of the Eastern Cape Province. Strelitzia 41(3): 1647-1680. South African National Biodiversity Institute, Pretoria. [CC BY]
Karroid flats and lower slopes. From: Meyer, NL; Smith, GF. 2012. Asphodelaceae: Astroloba Uitewaal. In: J Manning & P Goldblatt (eds), Plants of the Greater Cape Floristic Region 1: The Core Cape flora. Strelitzia 29: 71-71. South African National Biodiversity Institute, Pretoria. [CC BY]
South Africa. From: Brown, JR. 1939. Notes on Apicras. Cact. Succ. J. (Los Angeles) 9(6): 83-84. [All rights reserved] As: Apicra spiralis (L.) Baker
Little Karoo and E Cape. From: Meyer, NL; Smith, GF. 2012. Asphodelaceae: Astroloba Uitewaal. In: J Manning & P Goldblatt (eds), Plants of the Greater Cape Floristic Region 1: The Core Cape flora. Strelitzia 29: 71-71. South African National Biodiversity Institute, Pretoria. [CC BY]
December
400 to 800 m
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Occurrence in the Flora of Southern Africa (FSA) countries and South African provinces. Residence status indicates if a taxon is indigenous, endemic, naturalised or invasive in a specific region. This data is based on specimen records and literature
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Names and Sources
Published in: Succulenta (Netherlands) 1947: 53 (1947)
Aloe spiralis L.
Published in: Sp. Pl. 1: 322 (1753)
Haworthia spiralis (L.) Duval
Published in: Pl. Succ. Horto Alencon.: 7 (1809)
Apicra spiralis (L.) Baker, nom.illegit., non Willd. (1811)
Published in: J. Linn. Soc., Bot. 18: 217 (1880)
Tulista spiralis (L.) G.D.Rowley
Published in: Alsterworthia Int. Special Issue 10: 6 (2013)
Haworthia pentagona Haw. var. torulosa (Haw.) Parr
Aloe imbricata Haw.
Apicra pentagona (Aiton) Willd. var. torulosa Haw.
Haworthia gweneana Parr, nom.inval.
Haworthia imbricata (Aiton) Haw.
Haworthia pentagona (Aiton) Haw. var. spiralis (Salm-Dyck) Parr
Astroloba smutsiana Roberts Reinecke, ms. (not published)
Published in: The Genus Astroloba: 405 (1965)
Type: South Africa, Cape Province, Ladismith District, 24 miles S of Ladismith on old Barrydale road, Roberts 3 (BOL, holo.)
| Common name | Language | Reference/barcode | Published as |
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| rough flowered apicra | English | Brown, JR. 1939. Notes on Apicras, Cact. Succ. J. (Los Angeles) 9(6): 83-84. |
Apicra spiralis (L.) Baker [1] |
Classification
KINGDOM Plantae
SUBKINGDOM Phanerogamae
PHYLUM Anthophyta
ORDER Asparagales
FAMILY Asphodelaceae
SUBFAMILY Alooideae
GENUS Astroloba
SPECIES spiralis
25 results for Astroloba spiralis (L.) Uitewaal
Barcode: NBG0067983-0 Collector(s) & number: Barker, WF, 50976 | 1947-12-6
South Africa, Western Cape, Oudtshoorn Dist. Blackburn Valley.
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: NBG0067981-0 Collector(s) & number: Unknown, s.n. | 1950-8-12
South Africa, Western Cape, Worcester. Karoo Garden. Hort.
General notes: Perianth inflated, rugose. White at base, apices yellow.
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: NBG0067976-0 Collector(s) & number: Bond, P, 259 | 1940-3-23
South Africa, Western Cape, Laingsburg Dist. Rooihoogte.
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: PRE0111819-0 Collector(s) & number: Taylor, 6510A | 1925-3-
South Africa, Western Cape, Oudtshoorn.
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: NBG1569216-0 Collector(s) & number: Molteno, S, s.n. | 2019-4-
South Africa, Western Cape, Calitzdorp. Kleinberg, W. Calitzdorp.
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: PRE0037910-0 Collector(s) & number: Marloth, HWR, 5112 | --
South Africa, Eastern Cape, Graaff Reinet.
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: NBG0091967-0 Collector(s) & number: Hall, H, s.n. | 1970-3-3
South Africa, Western Cape, Calitzdorp.
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: NBG0067982-0 Collector(s) & number: Frames, PR, NBG 2525/27 | 1943-3-9
South Africa, Western Cape, Oudtshoorn Dist. De Rust.
General notes: Hort. Kirstenbosch. Rockery. Perianth rugose.
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: NBG0144171-0 Collector(s) & number: Bayer, MB, 4661 | 1977--
South Africa, Western Cape, Oudtshoorn. S of Dysseldorp.
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: NBG0146774-0 Collector(s) & number: Bayer, MB, s.n. | 1977--
South Africa, Western Cape, Calitzdorp. Badshoogte.
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: NBG0144155-0 Collector(s) & number: Bayer, MB, 3775 | 1984-1-18
South Africa, Western Cape, North Kamanassie Dam. North 'Homestead'.
General notes: Karroid Broken Veld.
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: NBG1569215-0 Collector(s) & number: Molteno, S, s.n. | 2019-4-
South Africa, Western Cape, Calitzdorp NW. North of Calitzdorp, and the westernmost of a series of small populations.
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: NBG1569209-0 Collector(s) & number: Molteno, S, s.n. | 2019-2-
South Africa, Western Cape, Laingsburg, Floriskraal. Kleingeelbek 136. On north facing slope of a rocky ridge.
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: NBG1488104-0 Collector(s) & number: Molteno, S, 87 | 2016-2-6
South Africa, Western Cape, Ladismith. The Farm Oskopvlakte. Several exposed plants with mostly dead and dried out stems. (Healthy plants were also growing nearby in shelter of shrubs).
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: NBG1569210-0 Collector(s) & number: Molteno, S, s.n. | 2019-2-
South Africa, Western Cape, Vleiland Valley. Buffelsrivier 225. On north facing slope of a rocky ridge.
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
This map contains point-based occurrences at different locations
2019
SERIES CHAPTER
Asphodelaceae Klopper, RR; Smith, GF; Bayer, MB; Bredenkamp, CLIn: CL Bredenkamp (ed.), A Flora of the Eastern Cape Province. Strelitzia 41(3)1647-1680
South African National Biodiversity Institute, Pretoria
2018
PERIODICAL/JOURNAL
A synopsis of Astroloba Uitewaal (Asphodelaceae: Alooideae): species, types, and infrageneric classification Molteno, S.M.; Smith, G.F.; Figueiredo, E.Haseltonia 25: 72-83
2013
PERIODICAL/JOURNAL
Generic concepts in the Alooideae. Part 3 - The phylogenetic story [original with errors] Rowley, GDAlsterworthia International, Special Issue 10: 3-6
2013
PERIODICAL/JOURNAL
Generic concepts in the Alooideae. Part 3 (revised) - The phylogenetic story Rowley, GDAlsterworthia International, Special Issue 10: 3-6
2012
SERIES CHAPTER
Asphodelaceae: Astroloba Uitewaal Meyer, NL; Smith, GFIn: J Manning & P Goldblatt (eds), Plants of the Greater Cape Floristic Region 1: The Core Cape flora. Strelitzia 29: 71-71
South African National Biodiversity Institute, Pretoria
2001
BOOK
Illustrated handbook of succulent plants: Monocots Eggli, U2001
BOOK
Illustrated handbook of succulent plants: Monocots Meyer, NL; Smith, GF1947
1939
1880
PERIODICAL/JOURNAL
A synopsis of Aloineae and Yuccoideae Baker, JGJournal of the Linnean Society. Botany 18: 148-221
1804
1753
No results found for Astroloba spiralis (L.) Uitewaal
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