Aloe maculata All.

Aloès maculé (fr), Aloès tacheté (fr)

Species

Angiosperms > Asparagales > Asphodelaceae > Aloe

Characteristics

Plants stemless and suckering freely to short-stemmed and solitary, 200-500 mm tall excluding inflorescence. Leaves 12-20, spreading to slightly deflexed, narrowly to broadly lanceolate, 130-500 x 50-120 mm, upper surface flat to slightly channelled, dark green with many pale spots in irregular transverse rows, lower surface convex, paler green, lineate, with fewer spots or unspotted. Inflorescence with(1-)4-12 ultimate branches, 0.4-1.5 m tall; racemes capitate; bracts deltoid-acuminate, 7-16 x 2.5-3.5 mm, distinctly 3-nerved to obscurely many-nerved. Flowers yellow to pink, orange or red, 20-45 mm long, subclavate to clavate above basal constriction; outer segments free for 6-15 mm, inner segments free but dorsally adnate to outer; pedicels 10-45 mm long, lengthening to 35-75 mm in fruit. Anthers exserted 1-5 mm. Ovary 5-10 x 2-4 mm, pale green; style exserted 3-5 mm. Fruit 18-40 x 6-15 mm, bluish grey. Seeds charcoal-grey, ±6.0 x 2.5 x 1.5 mm, broadly winged.
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Plants usually with very short stems, freely suckering, forming dense groups. Leaves 12–16, spreading to recurved, broadly lanceolate, 12–16 cm long; adaxial surface pale green with numerous white spots; abaxial surface pale green with dull white spots; margins with brown-tipped teeth 4–5 mm long. Inflorescence simple or branched, 40–80 cm tall; scape subtended by deltoid bracts 10 mm long. Racemes 1–3, condensed, 8–10 cm long, 10–14 cm wide; flowers crowded; bracts deltoid-acuminate, 7–10 mm long; pedicels 30–35 mm long. Perianth cylindrical-trigonous with basal swelling near ovary, 35–45 mm long, orange-pink; sepals and petals sub-acute to obtuse, spreading to recurved, cohering for part of their length. Stigma exserted 5 mm. Fruit not seen.
Succulent, perennial herb; acaulescent or stem up to 0.5 m long, rosettes solitary or suckering to form dense groups. Leaves with blade narrowly ovate to ovate, up to 250-300 mm long, with dried twisted apex; margins with pungent, deltoid, horny, brown teeth, pale to darker green, with many, dull, white spots in irregular broken, wavy, transverse bands on upper surface, paler green, obscurely lineate and usually without spots on lower surface. Flowers: inflorescence branched in middle, 0.4-1.0 m high, branches ascending, with capitate-corymbose, dense racemes; constricted above ovary; stamens and stigma exserted; perianth 35-45 mm long, red or orange to yellow; Jun., Jul. or Sep.-Jan.
Succulent, perennial herb; acaulescent or stem up to 0.5 m long, rosettes solitary or suckering to form dense groups. Leaves pale to darker green, with many, dull, white spots in irregular broken, wavy, transverse bands, adaxially paler green, obscurely lineate and usually without spots abaxially, narrowly to broadly lanceolate, up to 250300 mm long, with dried twisted apex, margins with pungent, deltoid, horny, brown teeth. Inflorescence branched in middle, 0.4-1.0 m high, branches ascending, with capitate-corymbose, dense racemes. Flowers red, orange or yellow; perianth with basal swelling, 35-45 mm long; stamens and stigma exserted. Flowering time June, July, Sept.-Jan.
A shrub. It does not have a stem. It grows in a ring. The main ring can be 40 cm tall. The leaves are thick and succulent and 25 cm long. There are sharp dark brown teeth along the edge. The leaves have white freckles. The flowers are tube shaped and red, orange or yellow.
Life form perennial
Growth form herb
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention evergreen
Sexuality hermaphrodite
Pollination entomogamy
Spread -
Mature width (meter) 1.0
Mature height (meter) 0.4 - 0.7
Root system -
Rooting depth (meter) -
Root diameter (meter) -
Flower color
Blooming months
JanFebMar
AprMayJun
JulAugSep
OctNovDec
Fruit color -
Fruiting months -
Nitrogen fixer -
Photosynthetic pathway -

Environment

It grows in warm temperate places. It can grow in arid places. In Brisbane Botanical gardens.
Light 6-9
Soil humidity 2-5
Soil texture 5-8
Soil acidity -
Soil nutriment -
Hardiness (USDA) 9-11

Usage

Uses animal food environmental use food material medicinal
Edible flowers leaves
Therapeutic use Boil (unspecified), Inflammation (unspecified), Ringworm (unspecified), Sore (unspecified)
Human toxicity -
Animal toxicity -

Cultivation

Mode -
Germination duration (days) 30 - 180
Germination temperacture (C°) 21
Germination luminosity light
Germination treatment -
Minimum temperature (C°) 1
Optimum temperature (C°) -
Size -
Vigor -
Productivity -

Images

Leaf

Aloe maculata leaf picture by Claudio Edgardo Dalinger (cc-by-sa)
Aloe maculata leaf picture by BERGES CARLOS BERGES (cc-by-sa)
Aloe maculata leaf picture by serge serge g (cc-by-sa)

Flower

Aloe maculata flower picture by Ana Sanchez (cc-by-sa)
Aloe maculata flower picture by Ambientologa (cc-by-sa)
Aloe maculata flower picture by Jules AP (cc-by-sa)

Distribution

Aloe maculata world distribution map, present in Australia, Brazil, Spain, France, Italy, Lesotho, Mauritius, Norfolk Island, Portugal, Réunion, and South Africa

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:77122815-1
WFO ID wfo-0000771182
COL ID C3TJ
BDTFX ID 3348
INPN ID 81595
Wikipedia (EN) Link
Wikipedia (FR) Link

Synonyms

Aloe tricolor Aloe gasterioides Aloe grahamii Aloe latifolia Aloe leptophylla Aloe macracantha Aloe maculosa Aloe spuria Aloe trichotoma Aloe disticha Aloe umbellata Aloe commutata var. bicolor Aloe leptophylla var. stenophylla Aloe saponaria var. latifolia Aloe picta var. major Aloe maculata