View source for Aloaceae ← Aloaceae You do not have permission to edit this page, for the following reason: The action you have requested is limited to users in the group: Users. You can view and copy the source of this page. {{Treatment/ID |accepted_name=Aloaceae |accepted_authority=Batsch |publications= |common_names=Aloe Family |basionyms= |synonyms= |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 }}<!-- --><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><!-- -->{{Treatment/Body |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 Aloe 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> |tables= |references= }}<!-- --><!-- -->{{#Taxon: name=Aloaceae |author=Walter C. Holmes;Heather L. White |authority=Batsch |rank=family |parent rank= |synonyms= |basionyms= |family=Aloaceae |illustrator=Bee F. Gunn |distribution=All Africa;Madagascar;Arabia;and Atlantic islands. |introduced=true |reference=None |publication title= |publication year= |special status= |source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/9216fc802291cd3df363fd52122300479582ede7/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V26/V26_844.xml }}<!-- -->[[Category:Treatment]] Templates used on this page: Aloaceae Illustrations (view source) Template:Aloaceae (view source) Template:Treatment/AuthorLink (view source) Template:Treatment/Body (view source) Template:Treatment/Body/Maps (view source) Template:Treatment/ID (view source) Return to Aloaceae.