Family: Asphodelaceae
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Aloe vaccillans Forssk.
Collector/Expedition: Collenette, Iris Sheila
Collection number: 7246
Collection date: 7th September 1989
Country/Territory: Saudi Arabia
Collecting locality: Saudi Arabia:tannamah, 22 km south of An Nimes
Habitat: Small granite hill - ungrazed
Description: Up to 3 spikes 80 cm tall. Yellow form. Very glacous blue-greyish leaves with a white bloom and small chocolate teeth. Narrow greenish yellow flowers 2.7 cm long with wide blunt bracts, 8 mm long 7 mm wide. Pale yellow sap. Fairly large grey seeds. Red flowered plants more common
Kind of specimen: HERBARIUM SPECIMEN/SHEET
Barcode: E00034297
Herbarium region: 2A_ARABIA (Arabian Peninsula)
Number of sheets: 1
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