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Gasteria doreeniae

Plant
Common names: Doreen's gasteria (Eng); Swartwaterspoort-beestong (Afr)
Family: Asphodelaceae

... (E. Cape). It was first described in the succulent journal Aloe in 2004. Gasteria doreeniae Van Jaarsv. & A.E.van Wyk ...

04/04/2011 | | Kirstenbosch NBG

Gasteria ellaphieae

Plant
Common names: Ellaphie's gasteria
Family: Asphodelaceae

... unexpectedly by the author in 1989 whilst searching for Aloe pictifolia plants, which are also endemic to the area. ...

18/04/2011 | | Kirstenbosch NBG

Gasteria polita

Plant
Common names: polished gasteria, polished ox tongue
Family: Asphodelaceae

... as they are large and firm enough to handle. Gasterias are aloe-like plants, in fact they belong in the same family. ...

20/01/2003 | | Kirstenbosch NBG

Gasteria pulchra

Plant
Common names: none recorded
Family: Asphodelaceae

... was named by William Aiton in 1789 as a variety of his Aloe maculata in Hortus Kewensis. Adrian Haworth, the British ...

26/03/2012 | | Kirstenbosch NBG

Gasteria rawlinsonii

Plant
Common names: Baviaanskloof cliff gasteria (Eng.); kransbeestong (Afr.)
Family: Asphodelaceae

... the Eastern Cape. The genus Gasteria is closely related to Aloe but differs in having pendulous flowers with a ...

23/11/2009 | | Kirstenbosch NBG

Tinospora fragosa

Plant
Common names: Aaron's rod, wonder plant (Eng.); Aaron-se-staf, wonderplant (Afr.)
Family: Menispermaceae

... medical inspector of schools, with an interest in  Aloe, Ledebouria   and other indigenous plants. Its species ...

21/04/2003 | | Kirstenbosch NBG

Gasteria nitida

Plant
Common names: Bathurst ox-tongue; Bathurst-beestong (Afr.)
Family: Asphodelaceae

... In 1817, Prince Salm-Dyck first named this species as Aloe nitida from live plants in his succulent collection. ...

15/12/2014 | | Kirstenbosch NBG

Curio pondoensis

Plant
Common names: Pondo cliff daisy (Eng.); Pondo krans-aster (Afr.)
Family: Asteraceae

... to the Msikaba Formation sandstone. It was named in the Aloe magazine in 2008 (Van Jaarsveld & Van Wyk 2008) as ...

24/08/2015 | | Kirstenbosch NBG

Sagittanthera mzimvubuensis

Plant
Common names: Mzimvubu-ruby (Eng.); kransrobyn (Afr.)
Family: Hyacinthaceae

... was named by the author as Drimia mzimvubuensis in the Aloe magazine (Van Jaarsveld & Van Wyk 2005). Sagittanthera ...

04/01/2016 | | Kirstenbosch NBG

Astroloba cremnophila

Plant
Common names: cliff astroloba (Eng.); krans-astroloba (Afr.)
Family: Asphodelaceae

... is part of the Asphodelaceae and is closely related to Aloe , Haworthia , Gasteria , Tulista and Haworthiopsis . ...

28/03/2016 | | Kirstenbosch NBG

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