Aloe khamiesensis Pillans (1934: 25)

Klopper, Ronell R., Grace, Olwen M., Klopper, Arrie W., Smith, Gideon F. & Van, Abraham E., 2023, A taxonomic revision of Aloe sect. Purpurascentes (Asphodelaceae subfam. Alooideae), Phytotaxa 628 (1), pp. 1921-1935 : 1921-1935

3. Aloe khamiesensis Pillans (1934: 25)

Lectotype (designated here):— SOUTH AFRICA, Northern Cape: Namaqualand, Kamieskroon , ex hort. June 1933, N. S. Pillans 6665 (lectotype BOL BOL140205 ! [https://plants.jstor.org/stable/viewer/10.5555/al.ap.specimen.bol140205]; isolectotype NBG NBG0067768 -0!).

Note regarding type:— There are three sheets of N.S. Pillans 6665 at Herb. BOL (BOL140203, BOL140204, and BOL140205). All three carry a ‘Type’ label. The date on BOL140203 and BOL140204 is June 1932, and the name on the specimen labels is ‘ Aloe sp. nov. ’. These two sheets are indicated in pencil as ‘Sheet I’ and ‘Sheet II’ respectively, and can thus be seen as part of a single collecting event. BOL140203 [https://plants.jstor.org/stable/viewer/10.5555/ al.ap.specimen.bol140203] consists of three racemes and a leaf, while BOL140204 [https://plants.jstor.org/stable/ viewer/10.5555/al.ap.specimen.bol140204] consists of a leaf and the lower portion of the inflorescence (peduncle and base of first branches), and a hand written note (presumably by Pillans) with descriptive information, as well as envelopes containing a coloured drawing of a flower and bract, loose plant material, and a mounted dissected flower and bracts. The leaf material on these two sheets represents the abaxial and adaxial surface of the same leaf, thus confirming that they represent two sheets of a single collection. The date on BOL140205 is June 1933, there is no sheet number on this specimen, and the species name on the original label is ‘ Aloe khamiesensis , Pillans’. This sheet consists of the separated abaxial and adaxial surfaces of a leaf, and a single raceme. The protologue of A. khamiesensis ( Pillans 1934: 25) states that Pillans 6665 was collected at Khamieskroon in August 1929, and that it flowered in May 1933 (‘Maio– Sept 1933 ’ in the diagnosis). Sheet BOL140205 is here chosen as lectotype as the information on the label most closely matches that provided in the protologue. A duplicate of this specimen is housed at Herb. NBG.