Aloe albida

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Aloe albida
Systematics
Monocots
Order : Asparagales (Asparagales)
Family : Grass trees (Xanthorrhoeaceae)
Subfamily : Affodilla family (Asphodeloideae)
Genre : Aloes ( aloe )
Type : Aloe albida
Scientific name
Aloe albida
( Stapf ) Reynolds

Aloe albida is a species of aloes in the subfamily of the Affodilla family (Asphodeloideae). The specific epithet albida comes from Latin , means 'whitish' and refers to the color of the flowers.

description

Vegetative characteristics

Aloe albida usually grows solitary and stemless with spindle-shaped roots . The six to twelve linear leaves form rosettes . The cloudy green leaf blade is 10 to 15 inches long and 0.4 to 0.5 inches wide. The teeth on the edge of the leaf are 0.5 millimeters long and 1 millimeter apart.

Inflorescences and flowers

The simple inflorescence reaches a length of 9 to 15 centimeters. The heady grapes are 2 to 5 inches long and 5 inches wide. They consist of eight to 16 flowers . The ovoid-tapered bracts have a length of 10 to 15 millimeters. The cloudy, creamy-white, green-tipped flowers are on 10 to 15 millimeter long peduncles . The flowers are 18 millimeters long and narrowed at their base. Above the ovary are slightly tapered and end in a double lip mouth. Your tepals are not fused together. The stamens protrude up to 1 millimeter from the flower.

genetics

The number of chromosomes is .

Systematics, distribution and endangerment

Aloe albida is widespread in the South African province of Mpumalanga on stony ground or on rocks at altitudes of 1450 to 1520 meters.

The first description as Leptaloe albida by Otto Stapf was published in 1933. Gilbert Westacott Reynolds put the species in 1947 in the genus Aloe . Synonyms are Aloe kraussii var. Minor Baker (1896), Aloe myriacantha var. Minor (Baker) A. Berger (1908) and Aloe kraussii Schönland (1903, nom. Illeg. ICBN -Article 53.1).

Aloe albida is listed in Appendix I of the Washington Convention on Endangered Species .

proof

literature

  • Leonard Eric Newton: Aloe albida . In: Urs Eggli (Hrsg.): Succulent lexicon. Monocotyledons . Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-8001-3662-7 , pp. 108 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Urs Eggli, Leonard E. Newton: Etymological Dictionary of Succulent Plant Names . Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-642-05597-3 , p. 5.
  2. ^ Curtis's Botanical Magazine . Volume 156, 1933, plate 9300.
  3. ^ Journal of South African Botany . Volume 13, number 2, 1947, p. 101 and p. 103.
  4. ↑ Appendices I, II and III valid from April 3, 2012 . (accessed on August 11, 2012).

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