Aloe chortolirioides

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Aloe chortolirioides
Systematics
Monocots
Order : Asparagales (Asparagales)
Family : Grass trees (Xanthorrhoeaceae)
Subfamily : Affodilla family (Asphodeloideae)
Genre : Aloes ( aloe )
Type : Aloe chortolirioides
Scientific name
Aloe chortolirioides
A. Berger

Aloe chortolirioides is a species of aloes in the subfamily of the Affodilla plants (Asphodeloideae). The specific epithet chortolirioides is derived from the name of the genus Chortolirion and from the Greek word -oides for 'similar'.

description

Vegetative characteristics

Aloe chortolirioides grows trunk-forming, branched and forms dense clusters with up to 50 shoots. The shoots reach a length of 10 to 20 centimeters and are 2 to 3 centimeters thick. They usually branch around in the middle. The roots are spindle-shaped. The 15 to 20 linear leaves are arranged in multiple rows on the shoots. The cloudy green leaf blade is 10 to 25 inches long and 3 to 5 inches wide. Occasionally there are a few white spots on the underside of the leaf near the base. The white, cartilaginous teeth on the leaf margin are 0.5 millimeters long and are 2 to 3 millimeters apart.

Inflorescences and flowers

The simple inflorescence reaches a length of 25 centimeters. The heady grapes are about 5 inches long and 5 to 7 inches wide. They consist of 18 to 20 flowers. The egg-shaped pointed bracts have a length of 10 to 13 millimeters. The scarlet to yellow flowers are on 20 to 25 millimeter long peduncles . The flowers are 30 to 35 millimeters long and briefly narrowed at their base. They are enlarged above the ovary . Your tepals are almost not fused together. The stamens and the style stick out briefly from the flower.

Systematics and distribution

Aloe chortolirioides is common in South Africa and Swaziland . Aloe chortolirioides var. Chortolirioides grows in the South African province of Mpumalanga and in Swaziland on rocky ridges at heights of up to 2000 meters. Aloe chortolirioides var. Woolliana is distributed in the South African provinces of Mpumalanga and Limpopo and in Swaziland on grasslands at altitudes of 1500 to 2000 meters.

The first description by Alwin Berger was published in 1908. A distinction is made between the following varieties :

  • Aloe chortolirioides var. Chortolirioides
  • Aloe chortolirioides var. Woolliana (Pole-Evans) Glen & DSHardy

Aloe chortolirioides var. Chortolirioides
synonyms are Aloe boastii Letty (1934) and Aloe chortolirioides var. Boastii (Letty) Reynolds (1950).

Aloe chortolirioides var. Woolliana
Aloe chortolirioides var. Woolliana differs from Aloe chortolirioides var. Chortolirioides by the 15 to 25 centimeters long shoots. The leaves are 37 centimeters long and 5 to 8 centimeters wide, the inflorescence reaches a height of up to 45 centimeters. The 30 to 40 millimeter long flowers are jasper red or pinkish red and occasionally yellowish at the mouth. The first description as Aloe woolliana by Illtyd Buller Pole-Evans was published in 1934. Spencer Hardy and Hugh Francis Glen introduced the species in 1987 as a variety to Aloe chortolirioides .

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literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gideon F. Smith, Colin C. Walker, Estrela Figueiredo: What's in a name: epithets in Aloe L. (Asphodelaceae) and what to call the next new species . In: Bradleya . Volume 28, 2010, p. 89.
  2. ↑ Alwin Berger: Liliaceae-Asphodeloideae-Aloineae . In: Adolf Engler (ed.): The plant kingdom. Regni vegetablilis conspectus . Issue 33, Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig 1908, p. 171 ( online ).
  3. ^ Flowering Plants of South Africa . Volume 14, 1934, plate 557.
  4. ^ South African Journal of Botany . Volume 53, Number 6, 1987, pp. 489-490.

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