CHORTOLIRION A. Berger
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Succulent perennials, sometimes large and shrub-like, but not dichotomously branched trees or large shrubs. Leaves borne in rosettes or distichous, usually stiff, succulent, with hard-toothed or spiny margins, spotted or unspotted; dried leaves persistent or not. Inflorescence variously branched or simple. Flowers usually brightly coloured, actinomorphic, only rarely ± 2-lipped, variously shaped, with or without a pronounced constriction above a bulbous basal swelling. A well known genus of mainly winter-flowering species. Derivation of name: Aloe is the Greek name for Aloe vera, one of the bitter aloes of medicine. Worldwide: c.365 species, tropics and especially southern Africa, Madagascar, Arabia and Canary Isles. Rwanda: 6 taxa. |
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| Species | Content | |
| bukobana Reynolds | ||
| dawei A. Berger | ||
| lateritia Engl. | ||
| macrosiphon Baker | ||
| myriacantha (Haw.) Schult. & Schult. f. | Description, Image | |
| volkensii Engl. |