Aloe cryptopoda

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

Aloe cryptopoda is a species of the genus Aloes in the subfamily of the Affodilla plants (Asphodeloideae). The specific epithet cryptopoda is derived from the Greek words kryptos for 'covered' and podos for 'foot' and refers to the flower stalks hidden by the bracts.

description

Vegetative characteristics

Aloe cryptopoda grows without a trunk, is usually solitary, occasionally sprouts and then forms small groups. The stiffly upright, lanceolate-pointed leaves form a compact rosette . The cloudy, greyish green, occasionally purple leaf blade is 60 to 90 centimeters long and 10 to 13 centimeters wide. The piercing, deltoid, brown-tipped teeth on the leaf margin are 1 to 3 millimeters long and 5 to 8 millimeters apart.

Inflorescences and flowers

The upright inflorescence has one to four branches and is up to 175 centimeters long. The dense, narrow, cylindrical long, pointed grapes are 20 to 45 centimeters long and 6 to 7 centimeters wide. The broad, egg-shaped pointed bracts have a length of 10 to 15 millimeters and are 8 to 12 millimeters wide. The bright orange-scarlet, yellowish tipped flowers stand on about 20 millimeter long peduncles . The cylindrical-triangular flowers are 28 to 35 millimeters (rarely up to 45 millimeters) long. At the level of the ovary , they have a diameter of 9 millimeters. Your outer tepals are not fused together. The stamens and the style stick out about 3 millimeters from the flower.

Systematics and distribution

Aloe cryptopoda is widespread in Botswana , Malawi , Mozambique , Zambia , Zimbabwe , Tanzania, and Swaziland on steep, exposed rocky slopes at heights of 60 to 1525 meters.

The first description by John Gilbert Baker was published in 1884.

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. 383 .

Individual evidence

↑ Urs Eggli, Leonard E. Newton: Etymological Dictionary of Succulent Plant Names . Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-642-05597-3 , p. 57.
^ JG Baker: New plants from the Zambesi Country . In: Journal of Botany, British and Foreign . Volume 22, London 1884, pp. 52-53 ( online ).

Web links

Commons : Aloe cryptopoda - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Aloe cryptopoda 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. 57.

[2] JG Baker: New plants from the Zambesi Country . In: Journal of Botany, British and Foreign . Volume 22, London 1884, pp. 52-53 ( online ).