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|accepted_name=Aloaceae
|accepted_authority=Batsch
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|common_names=Aloe Family
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|hierarchy=Aloaceae
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Aloaceae]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 26
|mention_page=page 12, 15, 18, 20
|treatment_page=page 410
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Trees,</b> shrubs, and succulents, perennial, simple to sparsely branched, rhizomatous, some tuberous-thickened. <b>Leaves</b> simple, alternate, usually crowded at bases of stems or ends of branches, sessile; blade fleshy, margins often prickly, venation parallel. <b>Inflorescences</b> terminal, axillary, or lateral, spicate, racemose, or paniculate. <b>Flowers</b> 3-merous, short- to long-pedicellate, rarely sessile; perianth red, brown, yellow, orange, or whitish; tepals petaloid, connivent or connate basally to almost entirely into tube, sometimes fleshy; stamens sometimes 3, usually 6, exserted or included; anthers dorsifixed, dehiscence antrorse; pollen grains monosulcate; ovary 3-carpellate, placentation axile, usually with septal nectaries; style terminal; stigmas punctate, discoid, or 3-lobed. <b>Fruits</b> capsular, rarely baccate, dehiscence loculicidal, apical. <b>Seeds</b> usually winged or flattened.</span><!--

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|distribution=All Africa;Madagascar;Arabia;and Atlantic islands.
|discussion=<p>Genera 5, species ca. 700 (1 genus, 2 species in the flora).</p><!--
--><p>Aloaceae are closely related to and included by some authors in Liliaceae.</p><!--
--><p>The juice of some <i>Aloe</i> species is used to make a purgative called bitter aloe; active ingredients include aloin and other anthraquinones. Additionally, the thick, mucilaginous gel of some species is widely used to treat minor thermal burns, itching, and sunburn.</p>
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name=Aloaceae
|author=Walter C. Holmes;Heather L. White
|authority=Batsch
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|family=Aloaceae
|illustrator=Bee F. Gunn
|distribution=All Africa;Madagascar;Arabia;and Atlantic islands.
|introduced=true
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