Aloe asperifolia
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Aloe asperifolia in the Palmengarten Frankfurt |
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Aloe asperifolia is a species of the genus Aloes in the subfamily of the Affodilla plants (Asphodeloideae). The specific epithet asperifolia is derived from the Latin words asper for 'rough' and -folius for 'leafy' and refers to the rough leaves of the species.
description
Vegetative characteristics
Aloe asperifolia grows without a stem and forms dense clumps consisting of 20 to 40 rosettes or with short, rooting, creeping shoots and is then simple or branched. The lanceolate, narrowed leaves are somewhat sickle-shaped. The glauke or occasionally almost white leaf blade is 15 to 25 inches long and 4 to 7 inches wide. The leaf surface is very rough. The horn-like, brownish teeth on the leaf margin are 2 to 3 millimeters long and 5 to 15 millimeters apart.
Inflorescences and flowers
The crooked inflorescence consists of two to three branches and reaches a length of 50 to 75 centimeters. The rather loose grapes are 20 to 25 centimeters long and consist of almost one-sided flowers. The deltoid-egg-shaped to deltoid and pointed bracts have a length of 10 to 15 millimeters and are 3 to 4 millimeters wide. The scarlet flowers are on 6 to 8 millimeter long peduncles . The flowers are 28 millimeters long and narrowed briefly at their base. At the level of the ovary , the flowers are 6 to 7 millimeters in diameter. Above it they are slightly widened and finally narrowed towards the mouth. Your outer tepals are not fused together over a length of 10 millimeters. The stamens protrude 8 to 10 millimeters, of the stylus 10 millimeters from the flower out.
Systematics and distribution
Aloe asperifolia is common in Namibia .
The first description by Alwin Berger was published in 1905.
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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. 413 .
- Leonard Eric Newton: Aloe asperifolia . In: Urs Eggli (Hrsg.): Succulent lexicon. Monocotyledons . Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-8001-3662-7 , pp. 112-113 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Urs Eggli, Leonard E. Newton: Etymological Dictionary of Succulent Plant Names . Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-642-05597-3 , p. 16.
- ↑ Alwin Berger: About the systematic structure of the genus Aloe . In: Botanical yearbooks for systematics, plant history and plant geography . Volume 36, Number 1, 1905, p. 63 ( online ).