Aloe dinteri

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

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Aloe dinteri is a species of aloes in the subfamily of the Affodilla family (Asphodeloideae). The specific epithet dinteri honors the German botanist Kurt Dinter .

description

Vegetative characteristics

Aloe dinteri grows individually, has no trunk and reaches heights of 26 centimeters and is just as wide. The approximately twelve lanceolate, pointed, folded, keeled leaves are arranged in three rows. Towards their tip they are V-shaped in cross section. The chocolate brown or dark brownish green leaf blade is 20 to 30 centimeters long and 5 to 8 centimeters wide. On the leaf surface there are many elongated, white spots that are more or less arranged in transverse bands. The narrow white leaf margin is cartilaginous. The keel on the underside has a 1 millimeter thick cartilaginous edge. The white fixed teeth on the leaf margin are 0.5 millimeters long and 1 to 2 millimeters apart. They become smaller and more crowded towards the tip of the leaf. The keel is set with similar teeth.

Inflorescences and flowers

The inflorescence consists of three to eight branches and is 50 to 85 centimeters long. The loose, cylindrical, pointed grapes are 15 to 20 centimeters long and 7 centimeters wide. The lanceolate-deltoid bracts are very pointed and are slightly shorter than the flower stalks . The light pink-red, bluish frosted flowers turn lighter to almost white towards their mouth. The flowers are 28 to 30 millimeters long and rounded at their base. At the level of the ovary , they have a diameter of 6.5 millimeters. Above that they are narrowed to 3.5 millimeters and finally widened towards their mouth. Your outer tepals are not fused together over a length of up to 10 millimeters. The stamens and the stylus protrude 1 millimeter from the flower.

Systematics, distribution and endangerment

Aloe dinteri is widespread in Namibia on limestone cliffs in low bush.

The first description by Alwin Berger was published in 1914.

Aloe dinteri is in the endangered Red List species the IUCN as " Least Concern (LC) ", d. H. classified as not endangered in nature.

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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. 310 .
Leonard Eric Newton: Aloe dinteri . In: Urs Eggli (Hrsg.): Succulent lexicon. Monocotyledons . Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-8001-3662-7 , pp. 132 .

Individual evidence

↑ Urs Eggli, Leonard E. Newton: Etymological Dictionary of Succulent Plant Names . Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-642-05597-3 , pp. 66-67.
↑ In: Kurt Dinter: New and little known plants in German Southwest Africa. With special consideration of the succulents . Okahandja 1914, p. 14.
↑ Aloe dinteri in the endangered Red List species the IUCN 2012. Posted by: Loots, S. & Craven, P., 2004. Accessed August 13 of 2004.

Web links

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[1] Urs Eggli, Leonard E. Newton: Etymological Dictionary of Succulent Plant Names . Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-642-05597-3 , pp. 66-67.

[2] In: Kurt Dinter: New and little known plants in German Southwest Africa. With special consideration of the succulents . Okahandja 1914, p. 14.

[3] Aloe dinteri in the endangered Red List species the IUCN 2012. Posted by: Loots, S. & Craven, P., 2004. Accessed August 13 of 2004.