Aloe angelica

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

Aloe angelica is a species of aloes in the subfamily of the Affodilla family (Asphodeloideae). The specific epithet angelica honors Angelique Wallace, the wife of the former chief engineer of the South African Railways and Harbors RC Wallace.

description

Vegetative characteristics

Aloe angelica grows trunk-forming and is simple or branched. The trunks reach a length of 3 to 4 meters and are covered in their upper half with the remains of dead leaves. The sword-shaped leaves form dense rosettes . The youngest leaves are spread out, the oldest knocked back. The green leaf blade is 80 inches long and 10 to 12 inches wide. The stinging, brownish-red teeth on the brownish-red edge of the leaf are 2 to 3 millimeters long and 10 millimeters apart.

Inflorescences and flowers

The inflorescence consists of up to 20 branches and reaches a length of about 100 centimeters. The close-headed grapes are 8 to 10 inches long and 8 to 10 inches wide. The ovate-pointed bracts have a length of 8 to 10 millimeters and are 8 to 10 millimeters wide. The bulbous, greenish yellow to yellow flowers are on 25 millimeter long peduncles . The flowers are 25 millimeters long and rounded at their base. Their mouth is slightly curved upwards. Your outer tepals are not fused together over a length of 18 millimeters. The stamens and the style protrude 15 mm out of the flower.

genetics

The number of chromosomes is . ${\ displaystyle 2n = 14}$

Systematics and distribution

Aloe angelica is common in the South African province of Limpopo on rocky slopes at altitudes of 500 to 1700 meters.

The first description by Illtyd Buller Pole-Evans was published in 1934.

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. 673 .
Leonard Eric Newton: Aloe angelica . In: Urs Eggli (Hrsg.): Succulent lexicon. Monocotyledons . Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-8001-3662-7 , pp. 110 .

Individual evidence

↑ Urs Eggli, Leonard E. Newton: Etymological Dictionary of Succulent Plant Names . Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-642-05597-3 , p. 10.
^ Flowering Plants of South Africa . Volume 14, 1934, plate 554.

Web links

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

Aloe angelica 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. 10.

[2] Flowering Plants of South Africa . Volume 14, 1934, plate 554.