Aloe alfredii

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

Aloe alfredii is a species of aloes in the subfamily of the Affodilla family (Asphodeloideae). The specific epithet alfredii honors Alfred Razafindratsira, a plant collector and gardener from Madagascar.

description

Vegetative characteristics

Aloe alfredii grows trunk-forming and is branched from the base. The shoots are 25 inches long and 1.5 inches wide. The linear foliage leaves are scattered along the shoots. Their dark, cloudy green leaf blades are 30 centimeters long and 1.5 centimeters wide. The white teeth on the leaf margin are 1 millimeter long. The 15 millimeter long, red-brown leaf sheaths have darker veins.

Inflorescences and flowers

The simple inflorescence reaches a length of 60 centimeters. The many-flowered, cylindrical grapes are 8 to 10 inches long and 5 to 6 inches wide. The triangular bracts have a length of 5 millimeters. The lemon yellow flowers are on 5 millimeter long peduncles and have a green central stripe. The flowers are 20 millimeters long and rounded at their base. At the level of the ovary , they have a diameter of about 4 millimeters. Your outer tepals are not fused together over a length of about millimeters. The stamens and the style stick out about 4 to 5 millimeters from the flower.

Systematics, distribution and endangerment

Aloe alfredii is widespread in central Madagascar on quartz fields at an altitude of 1400 meters.

The first description by Werner Rauh was published in 1990.

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

proof

literature

Susan Carter , John J. Lavranos , Leonard E. Newton , Colin C. Walker : Aloes. The definitive guide . Kew Publishing, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew 2011, ISBN 978-1-84246-439-7 , pp. 556 .
Leonard Eric Newton: Aloe alfredii . In: Urs Eggli (Hrsg.): Succulent lexicon. Monocotyledons . Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-8001-3662-7 , pp. 109 .

Individual evidence

↑ Urs Eggli, Leonard E. Newton: Etymological Dictionary of Succulent Plant Names . Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-642-05597-3 , pp. 6-7.
^ Cactus and Succulent Journal . Volume 62, Number 5, Cactus and Succulent Society of America, 1990, pp. 232-233.
↑ Appendices I, II and III valid from April 3, 2012 . (accessed on August 11, 2012).

Web links

Commons : Aloe alfredii - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Herbarium evidence

[1] Urs Eggli, Leonard E. Newton: Etymological Dictionary of Succulent Plant Names . Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-642-05597-3 , pp. 6-7.

[2] Cactus and Succulent Journal . Volume 62, Number 5, Cactus and Succulent Society of America, 1990, pp. 232-233.

[3] Appendices I, II and III valid from April 3, 2012 . (accessed on August 11, 2012).