Aloe chlorantha

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

Aloe chlorantha is a species of the genus Aloes in the subfamily of the Affodill family (Asphodeloideae). The specific epithet chlorantha is derived from the Greek words chloros for 'green' and anthos for 'blossom' and refers to the green flowers of the species.

description

Vegetative characteristics

Aloe chlorantha grows without stem or stem-forming, single or in groups with up to ten rosettes . The prostrate trunks reach a length of up to 1.5 meters. The deltoid, pointed and slightly sickle-shaped leaves form rosettes . The bright green, somewhat lined leaf blade , tending to purple, is up to 40 centimeters long and 8 centimeters wide. There are often white spots on the underside of the leaf. The dark brown-red teeth on the dark brown-red, cartilaginous leaf margin are 2 millimeters long and 10 to 30 millimeters apart.

Inflorescences and flowers

The inflorescence is simple or rarely consists of one branch. It reaches a length of 160 centimeters. The rather dense, cylindrical grapes are up to 35 centimeters long. The ovoid-deltoid, pointed, fleshy, yellow-green bracts have a length of 12 to 20 millimeters and are 5 to 8 millimeters wide. The yellow-green flowers are on 15 to 22 millimeter long peduncles . The flowers are 10 millimeters long and narrowed at their base. Above the ovary , the flowers have a diameter of 4 millimeters. They are then narrowed towards the mouth. Your outer tepals are not fused together. The stamens and the stylus barely protrude from the flower.

Systematics and distribution

Aloe chlorantha is widespread in the South African province of North Cape in the area around Fraserburg on dolerite rock deposits at altitudes of 1200 to 1500 meters.

The first description by John Jacob Lavranos was published in 1973.

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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. 262 .
Leonard Eric Newton: Aloe chlorantha . In: Urs Eggli (Hrsg.): Succulent lexicon. Monocotyledons . Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-8001-3662-7 , pp. 124 .

Individual evidence

↑ Urs Eggli, Leonard E. Newton: Etymological Dictionary of Succulent Plant Names . Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-642-05597-3 , p. 46.
↑ John. J. Lavranos: Aloe chlorantha: a new species from the south western Karoo (South Africa) . In: Journal of South African Botany . Volume 39, Number 1, 1973, pp. 85-90.

Web links

Aloe chlorantha in the Red List of South African Plants

[1] Urs Eggli, Leonard E. Newton: Etymological Dictionary of Succulent Plant Names . Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-642-05597-3 , p. 46.

[2] John. J. Lavranos: Aloe chlorantha: a new species from the south western Karoo (South Africa) . In: Journal of South African Botany . Volume 39, Number 1, 1973, pp. 85-90.