Aloe bellatula

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

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Aloe bellatula is a species of aloes in the subfamily of the Affodilla family (Asphodeloideae). The specific epithet bellatula is derived from the diminutive of the Latin word bellus and means 'beautiful'.

description

Vegetative characteristics

Aloe bellatula grows without a trunk, sprouts and forms dense clumps. The approximately 16 linearly tapering leaves form dense rosettes . Their dark green leaf blades are 10 to 13 inches long and 0.9 to 1 inches wide. There are many light green spots on the rough leaf surface. The soft, cartilaginous teeth on the leaf margin are 1 millimeter long. They are smaller or absent towards the tip of the leaf.

Inflorescences and flowers

The simple inflorescence - or there is a twig - reaches a length of 60 centimeters. The loose, cylindrical, pointed grapes are 12 to 16 centimeters long and 4 centimeters wide. They become denser towards the tip and consist of 35 flowers . The deltoid tapering bracts have a length of 4 to 6 millimeters and are 2 millimeters wide. The bright coral-red, bell-shaped flowers are on 12 millimeter long peduncles . The flowers are 13 millimeters long and narrowed towards their base. At the level of the ovary , they have a diameter of 6 millimeters. Your outer tepals are not fused together over a length of 7 millimeters. The stamens and the stylus barely protrude from the flower.

genetics

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

Systematics, distribution and endangerment

Aloe bellatula is widespread in Madagascar on mountain slopes at altitudes of around 1500 meters.

The first description by Gilbert Westacott Reynolds was published in 1956. A synonym is Guillauminia bellatula (Reynolds) PVHeath (1994).

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

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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. 403 .
Leonard Eric Newton: Aloe bellatula . In: Urs Eggli (Hrsg.): Succulent lexicon. Monocotyledons . Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-8001-3662-7 , pp. 114 .

Individual evidence

↑ Urs Eggli, Leonard E. Newton: Etymological Dictionary of Succulent Plant Names . Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-642-05597-3 , p. 24.
^ Journal of South African Botany . Volume 22, number 3, Kirstenbosch 1956, pp. 132-134.
↑ Appendices I, II and III valid from April 3, 2012 . (accessed on August 10, 2012).

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[1] Urs Eggli, Leonard E. Newton: Etymological Dictionary of Succulent Plant Names . Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-642-05597-3 , p. 24.

[2] Journal of South African Botany . Volume 22, number 3, Kirstenbosch 1956, pp. 132-134.

[3] Appendices I, II and III valid from April 3, 2012 . (accessed on August 10, 2012).