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Aloe purpurea Lam.

Asphodelaceae · Mauritius · listed by its genus as a cactus or succulent

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Aloe purpurea, photograph Matthieu Sontag (User:Mirgolth), CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia CommonsAloe purpurea, photograph S Molteno, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons 3 photographs ›

Summary

Aloe purpurea (previously Lomatophyllum purpureum/borbonicum/aloiflorum. Locally known as "Mazambron" or "Socotrine du Pays") is a species of Aloe endemic to the island of Mauritius, in the Indian Ocean, where it formerly occurred on dry rocky slopes and outcrops, the highland plateaus, and the forests of the west. It is part of a group of aloes which bear fleshy berries, and were therefore classed as a separate group, "Lomatophyllum". It is also one of only two Aloe species which naturally occur on Mauritius - both endemic and occurring nowhere else.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Aloe purpurea", CC BY-SA 4.0.

About the genus · Aloe

Aloe is a genus containing 594 species of flowering succulent plants. The most widely known species is Aloe vera, or "true aloe", which is cultivated as a source for topical uses and dietary supplements. Other species, such as Aloe ferox, are also cultivated or harvested from the wild for similar applications.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Aloe", CC BY-SA 4.0.

Cultivation

Grouped as a cactus or succulent, listed under the genus Aloe in the archetype table, and Kew describes it as “succulent shrub”.

Nothing derived: no habitat climate for this species.
How this section is made

Each card states this species' habitat figures with their sources, and what two fixed rules read from them; nothing here says what the plant does, wants or tolerates. The rules · the terms.

Group. Listed under the genus Aloe in the archetype table, and Kew describes it as “succulent shrub”. A group is taken only where Kew's description of the species agrees with the table's listing. The table gives no figure and no prose; the cold floor is the habitat's alone.

Climate across the habitat

No habitat climate can be derived: Only 2 distinct land cells of the climate grid hold an in-range record placed to within 10 km; three are needed for an envelope.

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP; the marker is where the records are densest and decides nothing.
No openly licensed record to show inside the range.
NativeMauritius · regions are the level-3 units of the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, as Kew's World Checklist records ranges, some under historical names such as Yugoslavia or Czechoslovakia (how).
Map marker-20.45, 57.35 · in the densest population, 6 records (100% of those in range)
Kew's description“succulent shrub” · “seasonally dry tropical” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 6 georeferenced records inside the native range; none carries a licence permitting republication, so the map shows no points. 2 records outside the WCVP native range not used. Under a dozen records behind the map. No climate across the range is derived for this species.
How this section is made
The map marker: the centre of the tenth-degree cell nearest the middle (no openly licensed record lies in the population, so no record's coordinates are published) of the densest 1° population of the 6 in-range records; it decides nothing. Records outside the native range, living specimens and records marked introduced are not used; which records count.

Photographs

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Photographs: Matthieu Sontag (User:Mirgolth), CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons; S Molteno, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

Other Aloe 198 in the reference

Aloe aculeata Aloe aculeata Tent Cent Aloe Photo: CC0, author not statedAloe acutissima Aloe acutissima Asphodelaceae Photo: CC BY, amantedarmaninAloe affinis Aloe affinis Spotted aloe Photo: CC BY-SA, alanbedfordshawAloe africana Aloe africana African aloe Photo: CC BY, Malte KrömerAloe albiflora Aloe albiflora Asphodelaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, S MoltenoAloe alooides Aloe alooides Graskop aloe Photo: CC BY, katuchkaAloe amudatensis Aloe amudatensis Asphodelaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, Susan BrownAloe andongensis Aloe andongensis Asphodelaceae Photo: CC BY, Presha SoogrimAloe angelica Aloe angelica Wylliespoort aloe Photo: CC0, DaderotAloe antandroi Aloe antandroi Asphodelaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, Andrew HankeyAloe arborescens Aloe arborescens Candelabra aloe Photo: CC BY-SA, Tony RebeloAloe arenicola Aloe arenicola Beach Aloe Photo: CC0, author not stated all 199 ›

Names & registers

Also known as Aloe marginalis; Aloe marginata; Aloe rufocincta; Dracaena dentata; Dracaena foetida and 11 more. (GBIF Backbone)

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The record

Family
Asphodelaceae
Described by
Lam.
Native to
Mauritius
Wild records
6 in range · 0 open

Every figure here is derived from public data by a stated rule and names its source; nothing about this species is written for its page by a person or by AI, apart from the marked, credited quotations. How →

Where this page came from built 2026-10-21
GBIF species record gbif.species answeredasked 2026-10-21
GBIF synonyms gbif.synonyms answeredasked 2026-10-21
GBIF common names gbif.vernacular answeredasked 2026-10-21names fetched 2026-10-21
WCVP native range wcvp.distribution answeredas of 2026-06-04
GBIF occurrence records gbif.occurrences answeredas of 2026-10-21GBIF occurrence download https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.hbdw64, of 2026-10-21; 1 record within 1 km of a botanic garden, herbarium or zoo left out (1 at a herbarium; Wikidata's list)
Habitat climate climate nothing to reportasked 2026-10-21only 2 distinct land cells of the climate grid hold an in-range record placed to within 10 km; three are needed for an envelope
Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-21
Wikipedia wikipedia answeredasked 2026-10-21
iNaturalist photographs, wild inat.photos.wild nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22from iNaturalist's open data of 2026-09-27: research-grade observations with an open-licence photograph, the 24 whose photographs iNaturalist received last (the open data holds no votes); filled 2026-10-22
iNaturalist photographs, cultivated inat.photos.cultivated not asked
GBIF media gbif.media nothing to reportasked 2026-10-21
Wikimedia Commons commons answeredasked 2026-10-21
OpenAlex papers openalex not askednot yet asked for this reference; a later fill takes the papers from OpenAlex's snapshot

Every source is recorded as having answered, reported nothing, refused, failed, not been asked, or answered twice where one answer is taken (“not taken: two items answered”), and, for a source asked when this page was built, when: the figures are as the source held them that day; a source read from a file (Kew's World Checklist, a GBIF download) says "as of" the file's day instead; a row carried from an earlier build of the page names that build instead. Only “nothing to report” is ever shown as an absence. Records came from 3 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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