PLANTAE / PHANEROGAMAE / ANTHOPHYTA / ASPARAGALES / ASPHODELACEAE / ALOOIDEAE / ALOE / VANDERMERWEI
Plants acaulescent, freely suckering and forming dense groups. Leaves 15-20, rosulate, up to 60 cm long, but only 3.5 cm broad (about 16 times longer than broad), linear, tapering upwards; upper surface flat low down, slightly channelled near apex, dark green, with large dull to distinct whitish elongated.spots arranged more or less in undulating interrupted transverse bands; lower surface convex, paler green, usually distinctly spotted, the spots more confluent and in more pronounced bands than the upper surface; margins sinuate-dentate, armed with firm deltoid pale brownish teeth 3-4 mm long, 10-15 mm distant, the interspaces rounded and the green colour of the leaf. (Leaf sap dries deep purple.) Inflorescence a blanched panicle about 1 met. high. Peduncle rather slender, branched above the middle with 6-10 arcuate-erect branches, the lowest subtended at base by a thin scarious many-nerved bract about 20-25 mm long, 10 mm broad at base. Racemes the terminal 10-20 cm long, rather laxly about 25-flowered, cylindric slightly acuminate, about 7 cm diam., the terminal the highest, the lateral lower shorter and fewer flowered. Bracts deltoid-acuminate, lowest of terminal racemes up to 10 mm long, 3 mm broad, thin scarious brownish 3-5-nerved. Pedicels lowest 10 mm long. Perianth flesh-pink to pale pinkish-red, 30 mm long, with a basal swelling 7-8 mm diam., constricted above the ovary to 5 mm, thence slightly decurved and enlarging towards the throat to 9 mm,, the mouth wide open; outer segments free for 9-10 mm, about 5-nerved, the nerves reddish and confluent at apex, with a broad whitish border 1-l.5 mm broad, the apices sub-acute, slightly spreading; inner segments themselves free but dorsally adnate to the outer for their greater length, broader than the outer, with broader white marginal border and more obtuse more spreading apices. Filaments filiform-flattened, the 3 inner narrower and lengthening in advance of the 3 outer, with their anthers in turn exserted 1-2 mm Stigma at length exserted 2 mm. Ovary 6 mm long, 2-5 mm diam., finely 6-grooved, pale green. Capsule 3 cm long, 1 cm diam. From: Reynolds, GW. 1974. Aloes of South Africa, 3rd ed. A.A. Balkema, Cape Town. [All rights reserved]
This aloe occurs in dense groups. Leaves are remarkably long (up to 60 cm) relative to their width (3.5 cm), spreading and downwards curved, often twisted and intermingled giving it a snake-like appearance. Leaves are usually distinctly spotted on the lower surface, with spots more confluent and in more pronounced bands than the upper surface. Inflorescences are up to 1 m high and branched from above the middle. Flowers are 30 mm long and flesh-pink, with a 1.0-1.5 mm wide whitish border on the outer perianth segments. From: Smith, GF; Figueiredo, E; Klopper, RR; Crouch, NR. 2012. Summer-flowering species of maculate Aloe L. (Asphodelaceae: Alooideae) in the Aloe zebrina-complex from South Africa: reinstament of four names, and description of A. braamvanwykii Gideon F.Sm. & Figueiredo. Bradleya 30: 155-166. [All rights reserved]
A. vandermerwei is a most distinctive species; it occurs in red clayey soil in grassveld in openings among acacia and lowveld and other trees, in a locality which sometimes experiences 110 deg. F. in summer. From: Reynolds, GW. 1974. Aloes of South Africa, 3rd ed. A.A. Balkema, Cape Town. [All rights reserved]
Red clayey soil in grassveld and lowveld in openings among acacia and other trees. From: Smith, GF; Figueiredo, E; Klopper, RR; Crouch, NR. 2012. Summer-flowering species of maculate Aloe L. (Asphodelaceae: Alooideae) in the Aloe zebrina-complex from South Africa: reinstament of four names, and description of A. braamvanwykii Gideon F.Sm. & Figueiredo. Bradleya 30: 155-166. [All rights reserved]
Up to the present A. vandermerwei has been collected only between Leydsdorp and Gravelotte, which is about 40 miles east of Tzaneen in the north-eastern Transvaal bushveld. From: Reynolds, GW. 1974. Aloes of South Africa, 3rd ed. A.A. Balkema, Cape Town. [All rights reserved]
It is occurs from between Leydsdorp and Gravelotte, westwards to Malopene and Letaba in the Kruger National Park, and southwards to the Timbavati area, Limpopo, South Africa. From: Smith, GF; Figueiredo, E; Klopper, RR; Crouch, NR. 2012. Summer-flowering species of maculate Aloe L. (Asphodelaceae: Alooideae) in the Aloe zebrina-complex from South Africa: reinstament of four names, and description of A. braamvanwykii Gideon F.Sm. & Figueiredo. Bradleya 30: 155-166. [All rights reserved]
February to March
394 to 765 m
This map contains point-based occurrences at different locations
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: Aloes S. Africa: 268 (1950)
Type: South Africa, Limpopo Province, near Gravelotte, April 1936, F.Z. van der Merwe s.n. in PRE21288 (PRE, holo.)
Aloe angustifolia Groenew., nom.illegit., non Haw. (1819), nec Salm-Dyck (1821)
Published in: Fl. Pl. South Africa 18: t.708 (1938)
Classification
KINGDOM Plantae
SUBKINGDOM Phanerogamae
PHYLUM Anthophyta
ORDER Asparagales
FAMILY Asphodelaceae
SUBFAMILY Alooideae
GENUS Aloe
SPECIES vandermerwei
13 results for Aloe vandermerwei Reynolds
Barcode: PRE0712867-0 Collector(s) & number: Retief, IM, 583 | 1987-4-1
South Africa, Limpopo, PHALABORWA DIST.; RHODA 9 KU FARM; 10 KM S OF FOSKOR TAILING DAM AREA
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Barcode: PRE0087955-0 Collector(s) & number: Mostert, PAM, PRE 38174 | --
South Africa, Limpopo, PILGRIMS REST DIST.; ACORNHOEK; TIMBAVATI PRIVATE NAT. RES.
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Barcode: PRE0545263-0 Collector(s) & number: Zambatis, N, 880 | 1979-3-11
South Africa, Limpopo, KLASERIE PRIV. NAT.; ROSS 55 KU FARM
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Barcode: PRE0087952-0 Collector(s) & number: Van der Schijff, HP, 3548A | 1954-2-16
South Africa, Limpopo, KRUGER NAT. PARK; LETABA; TURFLAAGTE
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Barcode: PRE0087947-0 Collector(s) & number: Reynolds, GW, 2340 | 1937-3-28
South Africa, Limpopo, PIETERSBURG DIST.; BETWEEN LEYDSDORP AND GRAVELOTTE
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Barcode: PRE0087949-0 Collector(s) & number: Reynolds, GW, 1861 | 1936-5-24
South Africa, Limpopo, PIETERSBURG DIST.; LEYDSDORP; 3 MI. N. E. OF LEYDSDORP
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Barcode: PRE0110830-0 Collector(s) & number: Oates, LG, 395 | 1971-3-
South Africa, Limpopo, HANS MERENSKY NAT. RES.
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Barcode: PRE0087948-0 Collector(s) & number: Van der Merwe, FZ, 78 | 1936-3-
South Africa, Limpopo, PIETERSBURG DIST.; GRAVELOTTE
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Barcode: PRE0087951-0 Collector(s) & number: Van der Schijff, HP, 3630 | 1954-3-10
South Africa, Limpopo, KRUGER NAT. PARK; MALOPENE
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This map contains point-based occurrences at different locations
2012
PERIODICAL/JOURNAL
Summer-flowering species of maculate Aloe L. (Asphodelaceae: Alooideae) in the Aloe zebrina-complex from South Africa: reinstament of four names, and description of A. braamvanwykii Gideon F.Sm. & Figueiredo Smith, GF; Figueiredo, E; Klopper, RR; Crouch, NRBradleya 30: 155-166
2011
SERIES
The aloe names book Grace, OM; Klopper, RR; Figueiredo, E; Smith, GFStrelitzia 28: 1-232
South African National Biodiversity Institute, Pretoria
2000
FLORA
Aloe Glen, HF; Hardy, DSIn: G Germishuizen & E du Plessis (eds), Aloaceae (first part). Flora of Southern Africa 5(1),11-167
National Botanical Institute, Pretoria
1974
1938
PERIODICAL/JOURNAL
Aloe angustifolia Groenewald Groenewald, BH; Letty, CLFlowering Plants of South Africa 18(3), t.708
No results found for Aloe vandermerwei Reynolds
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