Aloe boiteaui

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

Aloe boiteaui is a species of aloes in the subfamily of the Affodilla family (Asphodeloideae). The specific epithet boiteaui honors the French botanist Pierre L. Boiteau (1911–1980), who was the curator of the Botanical Garden in Antananarivo .

description

Vegetative characteristics

Aloe boiteaui grows without a trunk or with a short trunk and sprouts. The roughly ten triangular leaves form rosettes . The olive-green leaf blade is 15 to 20 inches long and 1.4 inches wide. The reddish pink teeth on the narrow, reddish pink, cartilaginous leaf margin are 0.5 to 1 millimeter long and 2 millimeters apart. They are missing towards the tip of the leaf.

Inflorescences and flowers

The simple inflorescence reaches a length of 10 to 15 centimeters. The loose grapes are 5 centimeters long and consist of about ten flowers . The deltoid-pointed bracts have a length of 5 millimeters and are 3 millimeters wide. The bright scarlet flowers are 25 millimeters long and narrow at their base. They stand on 10 millimeter long flower stalks . Above the ovary , the flowers are slightly narrowed and then widen towards the mouth. Your outer tepals are not fused together over a length of 18 millimeters. The stamens and the style stick out slightly from the flower.

Systematics and distribution

Aloe boiteaui is common in Madagascar in the province of Toliara near Tolagnaro . The species is only known from the collection of types.

The first description by André Guillaumin was published in 1942. A synonym is Lemeea boiteaui (Guillaumin) PVHeath (1994).

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. 231 .
Leonard Eric Newton: Aloe boiteaui . In: Urs Eggli (Hrsg.): Succulent lexicon. Monocotyledons . Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-8001-3662-7 , pp. 115 .

Individual evidence

↑ Urs Eggli, Leonard E. Newton: Etymological Dictionary of Succulent Plant Names . Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-642-05597-3 , p. 27.
^ Bulletin du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle . 2nd episode, Volume 14, 1942, p. 349.

Web links

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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. 27.

[2] Bulletin du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle . 2nd episode, Volume 14, 1942, p. 349.