Aloe plicatilis

Life > eukaryotes > Archaeoplastida > Chloroplastida > Charophyta > Streptophytina > Plantae (land plants) > Tracheophyta (vascular plants) > Euphyllophyta > Lignophyta (woody plants) > Spermatophyta (seed plants) > Angiospermae (flowering plants) > Monocotyledons > Order: Asparagales > Family: Xanthorrhoeaceae > Genus: Aloe

Aloe plicatilis. Top and middle left (plants in flower): Kirstenbosch Botanical Gardens. Top right, middle right and bottom (plants in fruit): Boland Trail, Hottentots Holland mountains. [photos H.G. Robertson, Iziko ©]

Publications

• Glen, H.F. 1988. Aloe plicatilis. Flowering Plants of Africa 50: t.1972.
• Wessels, P.L., Holzapfel, C.W., Van Wyk, B.-E. & Marais, W. 1996. Plicataloside, an O,O-diglycosylated naphthalene derivative from Aloe plicatilis. Phytochemistry 41: 1547–1551.