Aloe calcairophila
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Aloe calcairophila is a species of the genus Aloes in the subfamily of the Affodilla plants (Asphodeloideae). The specific epithet calcairophila is derived from the French word calcaire for 'lime' and the Greek word philos for 'friend' and refers to the ecological predilection of the species.
description
Vegetative characteristics
Aloe calcairophila grows without a trunk, sprouts and forms small groups. The roughly ten triangular, pointed leaves are arranged in two rows. The cloudy gray-green leaf blade is 5 to 6 inches long and 1.4 inches wide. The soft, cartilaginous teeth on the leaf margin are 2 to 3 millimeters long and 2 to 3 millimeters apart.
Inflorescences and flowers
The simple inflorescence reaches a length of 20 to 25 centimeters. The loose grapes are 3 to 4 inches long. They consist of eight to ten flowers . The ovoid-pointed bracts are 3 millimeters long and 2 millimeters wide. The white flowers are on 5 to 6 millimeter long peduncles . The flowers are 10 millimeters long and narrowed briefly at their base. They are enlarged to 4 millimeters above the ovary and slightly contracted at the mouth. Your outer tepals are not fused together over a length of 5 millimeters. The stamens and the stylus do not protrude from the flower.
Systematics, distribution and endangerment
Aloe calcairophila is found in Madagascar on limestone hills at an altitude of 1400 meters.
The first description by Gilbert Westacott Reynolds was published in 1960. Synonyms are Guillauminia calcairophila (Reynolds) PVHeath (1994) and Aloe calcairophylla hort. (no year, nom. invalid ICBN -Article 61.1).
Aloe calcairophila 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. 209 .
- Leonard Eric Newton: Aloe calcairophila . In: Urs Eggli (Hrsg.): Succulent lexicon. Monocotyledons . Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-8001-3662-7 , pp. 120 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Urs Eggli, Leonard E. Newton: Etymological Dictionary of Succulent Plant Names . Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-642-05597-3 , p. 37.
- ^ Journal of South African Botany . Volume 27, Number 1, 1960, pp. 5-6.
- ↑ Appendices I, II and III valid from April 3, 2012 . (accessed on August 11, 2012).