Biology:Aloe albiflora

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Short description: Species of aloe


Aloe albiflora
Juvenile Aloe albiflora in cultivation - RSA.jpg
CITES Appendix I (CITES)[2]
Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Order: Asparagales
Family: Asphodelaceae
Subfamily: Asphodeloideae
Genus: Aloe
Species:
A. albiflora
Binomial name
Aloe albiflora
Guillaumin[3]

Aloe albiflora is a species of aloe indigenous to Madagascar with narrow, muricate leaves and widely campanulate, snow-white flowers that are 10mm long and 14mm across the mouth. Its nearest affinity, based on leaf characters only, is Aloe bellatula.[4]

Aloe albiflora is cultivated typically as a potted plant in greenhouses or outdoors in mostly frost-free regions.

Notes

  1. Rakotoarisoa, S.E. (2020). "Aloe albiflora". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2020: e.T85998416A100531604. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2020-2.RLTS.T85998416A100531604.en. https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/85998416/100531604. Retrieved 17 January 2024. 
  2. "Appendices | CITES". https://cites.org/eng/app/appendices.php. 
  3.  Aloe albiflora was first described and published in Bulletin du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle. (Paris) sér. 2, 12: 353. 1940 "Plant Name Details for Aloe albiflora". IPNI. http://www.ipni.org:80/ipni/idPlantNameSearch.do?id=529183-1. "Notes: Madag" 
  4. Reynolds, Gilbert. The Aloes of Tropical Africa and Madagascar. The Trustees, Aloes Book Fund, 1966, p. 407.

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