Aloe arenicola
| Aloe arenicola | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aloe arenicola |
||||||||||||
| Systematics | ||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||
| Scientific name | ||||||||||||
| Aloe arenicola | ||||||||||||
| Reynolds |
Aloe arenicola is a species of aloes in the subfamily of the Affodilla family (Asphodeloideae). The specific epithet thionanthum is derived from the Latin words arena for 'sand' and -cola for 'inhabiting' and refers to the preferred habitat of the species.
description
Vegetative characteristics
Aloe arenicola grows single and / or branching and forms small clumps. The prostrate trunk is up to 1 meter long. Its close to the tip, 20 to 30 centimeters long area is ascending and leafy. The approximately 20 lanceolate, narrowed leaves form a fairly dense rosette . The bluish green leaf blade is 18 inches long and 5.5 inches wide. On the leaf surface there are irregularly scattered elongated whitish spots. There is usually a whitish end pin at the tip . The teeth on the whitish horny leaf margin are 0.5 millimeters long and are 5 to 8 millimeters apart.
Inflorescences and flowers
The inflorescence is simple or consists of one or two branches and reaches a height of 50 centimeters. The close-headed grapes are 6 inches long and 9 inches wide. The bracts have a length of 10 millimeters and are 3 to 4 millimeters wide. The peach-red flowers are on 35 millimeter long flower stalks . The flowers are 40 millimeters long, rounded at their base and lighter at the mouth. Your outer tepals are not fused together over a length of 20 millimeters. The stamens and the style stick out about 3 millimeters from the flower.
Systematics and distribution
Aloe arenicola distributed in the South African provinces of the North Cape and Western Cape on sandy coastal plains.
The first description by Gilbert Westacott Reynolds was published in 1938.
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. 547 .
- Leonard Eric Newton: Aloe arenicola . In: Urs Eggli (Hrsg.): Succulent lexicon. Monocotyledons . Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-8001-3662-7 , pp. 112 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Urs Eggli, Leonard E. Newton: Etymological Dictionary of Succulent Plant Names . Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-642-05597-3 , p. 14.
- ^ Journal of South African Botany . Volume 4, number 1, Kirstenbosch 1938, pp. 21-24.
Web links
- Aloe arenicola in the Red List of South African Plants