Aloe dewetii
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Aloe dewetii is a type of plant of the genus Aloes in the subfamily of the Affodilla plants (Asphodeloideae). The specific epithet dewetii honors JF de Wet, director of the Vryheid Junior School in South Africa, who referred Reynolds to the species.
description
Vegetative characteristics
Aloe decurva grows easily and without trunk. The approximately 20 lanceolate, pointed leaves form dense rosettes . The cloudy green leaf blade is up to 48 inches long and 13 inches wide. On the upper side of the leaf there are numerous cloudy white, elongated spots that are arranged in irregular transverse bands or irregularly scattered. The underside is not speckled and indistinctly streaked. The protruding, horn-like edges are brown. The stinging, brown teeth on the leaf margin are up to 10 millimeters long and 10 to 15 millimeters apart.
Inflorescences and flowers
The inflorescence consists of ten branches and reaches a length of up to 2 meters and more. The lower branches are also branched. The cylindrical, pointed grapes are up to 40 centimeters long and 7 centimeters wide. The deltoid bracts have a length of 20 millimeters and are 3 millimeters wide. The cloudy, scarlet, frosted flowers stand on peduncles up to 15 millimeters long . The flowers are 35 to 42 millimeters long and truncated at their base. At the level of the ovary , the flowers have a diameter of 14 millimeters. Above this, they are suddenly narrowed to 6 to 7 millimeters and finally widened to the mouth. Your outer tepals are not fused together over a length of 6 millimeters. The stamens and the style protrude up to 1 millimeter from the flower.
genetics
The number of chromosomes is .
Systematics and distribution
Aloe dewetii is widespread in the South African provinces of KwaZulu-Natal and Mpumalanga as well as in the south of Swaziland on grasslands at heights of 200 to 1000 meters.
The first description by Gilbert Westacott Reynolds was published in 1937.
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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. 189 .
- Leonard Eric Newton: Aloe dewetii . In: Urs Eggli (Hrsg.): Succulent lexicon. Monocotyledons . Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-8001-3662-7 , pp. 131 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Urs Eggli, Leonard E. Newton: Etymological Dictionary of Succulent Plant Names . Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-642-05597-3 , p. 65.
- ^ Journal of South African Botany . Volume 3. Number 3, Kirstenbosch 1937, pp. 139-141.
Web links
- Aloe dewetii in the Red List of South African Plants