Aloe alooides

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

Aloe alooides is a species of aloes in the subfamily of the Affodilla family (Asphodeloideae). The specific epithet alooides is derived from the Greek word -oides for 'similar' and the name of the genus Aloe .

description

Vegetative characteristics

Aloe alooides grows in a stem-forming manner. The upright, strong trunk is usually simple and rarely branched far below. It reaches a length of up to 2 meters and is covered with the remains of dead leaves. The lanceolate, sword-shaped, long-pointed leaves are deeply rutted, arched back and form dense rosettes . The green, occasionally slightly reddish leaf blade is 130 centimeters long and 18 centimeters wide. Usually the leaf margins are noticeably reddish. The reddish-tipped teeth on the edge of the leaf, usually curved to the tip of the leaf, are 2 to 3 millimeters long and 10 millimeters apart.

Inflorescences and flowers

The simple, upright inflorescence reaches a length of 130 centimeters. The dense, narrow, cylindrical, slightly narrowed grapes are 80 centimeters long and 4.5 centimeters wide. The egg-shaped-pointed bracts have a length of 5 to 7 millimeters and are 4 to 5 millimeters wide. There are no flower stalks . The bell-shaped, lemon-yellow flowers are 9 millimeters long and rounded at their base. At the mouth, the flowers have a diameter of 8 millimeters. Your outer tepals are not fused together. The stamens and the style protrude 7 to 8 millimeters from the flower.

Systematics and distribution

Aloe alooides is widespread in the South African province of Mpumalanga on dolomite deposits in the mountains at altitudes of 1700 to 2000 meters.

The first description as Urginea alooides by Harry Bolus was published in 1881. Denise van Druten placed the species in the genus Aloe in 1956 .

Another nomenclature synonym is Notosceptrum alooides (Bolus) Benth. (1883). Aloe recurvifolia Groenew. (1935) was included as a synonym in the 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. 657 .
Leonard Eric Newton: Aloe alooides . 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 , p. 7.
^ Journal of the Linnean Society. Botany . Volume 18, 1881, p. 395 ( online ).
↑ Bothalia . Volume 6, Number 3, 1956, pp. 544-545. ( PDF )

Web links

Commons : Aloe alooides - collection of images, videos and audio files

Aloe alooides in the Red List of South African Plants

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

[2] Journal of the Linnean Society. Botany . Volume 18, 1881, p. 395 ( online ).

[3] Bothalia . Volume 6, Number 3, 1956, pp. 544-545. ( PDF )