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Taxon: Aloe vera (L.) Burm. f.

Genus: Aloe
Family: Xanthorrhoeaceae subfamily: Asphodeloideae. Also placed in: Aloaceae Asphodelaceae
Nomen number: 311403
Place of publication: Fl. indica 83. 1768 1 Mar-6 Apr
Name verified on: 28-Sep-1993 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last updated: 10-Dec-2002
No species priority site assigned.

NO ACCESSIONS IN NPGS UNDER THIS NAME.
Check AABGA/NAPCC contact person for genus for possible non-NPGS germplasm.

Common names:

  • Barbados aloe   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – English
  • Curaçao aloe   (Source: Dict Econ Pl ) – English
  • true aloe   (Source: AH 505 ) – English
  • West Indian aloe   (Source: Econ Bot 7:99. 1953) – English
  • aloès vulgaire   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French
  • echte Aloe   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – German
  • babosa   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  • babosa-medicinal   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  • erva-babosa   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  • acibar   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  • aloe   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  • sávila   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
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Economic importance:

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Distributional range:

      Native:
  • AFRICA
    Macaronesia: Spain - Canary Islands

      Naturalized:
  • widely naturalized

      Cultivated:
  • widely cultivated

References:

  • Adams, C. 1972. Flowering plants of Jamaica. (F Jam)
  • Davis, P. H., ed. 1965–1988. Flora of Turkey and the east Aegean islands. (F Turk)
  • Duke, J. A. et al. 2002. CRC Handbook of medicinal herbs. (CRC MedHerbs ed2)
  • Groth, D. 2005. pers. comm. [re. Brazilian common names].
  • Hodge, W. H. 1953. Econ. Bot. 7:99. [= A. barbadensis Mill.].
  • Howard, R. 1979. Flora of the lesser Antilles. (F LAnt) 3:455–457.
  • Izquierdo Z., I. et al., eds. 2004. Lista de especies silvestres de Canarias: hongos, plantas y animales terrestres. (L Canaries)
  • McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. 2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2. (Herbs Commerce ed2)
  • McVaugh, R. 1983–. Flora Novo-Galiciana. (F NGalicia) [= A. barbadensis Mill.].
  • Nicolson, D. H. et al. 1988. An interpretation of Van Rheede's Hortus Malabaricus. Regnum Veg. 119:295.
  • Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) - on-line resource. (Pl Names)
  • Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants. (Dict Rehm)
  • Täckholm, V. & M. Drar. 1954–. Flora of Egypt. (F EgyptT&D)
  • Terrell, E. E. et al. 1986. Agric. Handb. no. 505. (AH 505)
  • Tutin, T. G. et al., eds. 1980. Flora europaea. (F Eur) 5:20.
  • Uphof, J. C. T. 1968. Dictionary of economic plants, ed. 2. (Dict Econ Pl)
  • Walters, S. M. et al., eds. 1986–. European garden flora. (Eur Gard F)
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Synonyms:


Check other databases for Aloe vera (L.) Burm. f.:

  • Flora Europaea: Database of European Plants (ESFEDS)
  • Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
  • ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
  • AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
  • Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.
    Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Check other databases for images:

  • PlantSystematics.org
  • Google Images Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

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Germplasm Resources Information Network - (GRIN) [Online Database].
National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland.
URL: http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?311403 (09 February 2010)

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