Abstract
Gas-liquid chromatographic analyses of the alkane fraction of cuticular waxes from 63 species in the genus Aloe (Liliaceae) have been carried out. Species specificity in composition has been confirmed and a correlation between composition and the sub-classification of the genus according to Reynolds is discernible in the leaf wax alkanes and is more clearly revealed in the perianth wax alkanes. The presence of branched chain alkanes in one leaf wax and of alkenes in two perianth waxes and in all the style and filament waxes investigated is reported.
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