Aloe perdita Ellert

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Description: Stemless succulent, suckering from the base forming small colonies. Leaves with greenish-yellow sap, 5-25 in a basal rosette, smooth or very slightly rough, linear, 14.5–36 cm long and c.2 cm wide at base; upper surface mostly concave, slighty channeled towards the apex, pale to dark green to reddish-brown, marked with pale stripes or blotches sometimes arranged in wavy bands; margin with small, hardly spiny teeth 0.1–1.5 mm long. Inflorescence singly or rarely two to a rosette, erect up to 55 cm high, 1–4-branched with laxly 5–35-flowered cylindric racemes, 5–15 cm long up to 6.5 cm wide; pedicels 7–16 mm long. Flowers pale reddish to pale orange-scarlet, slightly curving downwards or hanging vertically, 20–33 mm long 4.5–7 mm across the ovary, constricted to 3.5–4 mm above the ovary, widening to at about the middle; filaments pale yellow as long as the perianth, anthers brown, exserted 0.5–1.5 mm. Fruit an more or less elliptic capsule, c. 23 mm long,yellow-green to brownish-green before ripening, dehiscent.
Notes: This species has only recently been described from specimens in cultivation. The original parent specimens were collected from an unknown location in the Chimanimanis, probably in the Muhowa area known as the Corner.
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Worldwide distribution: Chimanimani Mts of Zimbabwe and Mozambique
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Literature:

Ellert, A.F.N. (2008). Aloe perdita, a long-lost species from the Chimanimani Mountains on the Zimbabwe/Moçambique border Aloe 45(3) Pages 76 - 77. (Includes a picture).

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Copyright: Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten, Petra Ballings and Meg Coates Palgrave, 2002-24

Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T., Ballings, P. & Coates Palgrave, M. (2024). Flora of Zimbabwe: Cultivated Plants: Species information: Aloe perdita.
https://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/cult/species.php?species_id=214800, retrieved 28 March 2024

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