Aloe droseroides
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Aloe droseroides is a species of aloes in the subfamily of the Affodilla plants (Asphodeloideae). The specific epithet droseroides is derived from the name of the genus Drosera and from the Greek word -oides for 'similar'.
description
Vegetative characteristics
Aloe droseroides occasionally grows short stems and forms small clumps. The short stems are mostly underground and have fleshy, yellow roots . The spread or, more rarely, ascending, narrow deltoid to linear leaves form rosettes with a diameter of 3 to 8 centimeters. Their purple or gray-green to dark green leaf blades are 2.5 to 4.5 inches long and 0.2 to 0.4 inches wide. It is covered with upright, bristle-like hair 0.5 millimeters in length. The lash-like, transparent teeth on the edge of the leaf are 1 to 1.5 millimeters long and are crowded together.
Inflorescences and flowers
The simple inflorescence reaches a length of up to 30 centimeters. The loose, little-flowered, cylindrical grapes are 4 to 6 centimeters long. The deltoid-pointed, paper-like bracts have a length of 3 millimeters and are 1 millimeter wide. The cylindrical, white flowers are on 5 to 6 millimeter long, reddish flower stalks . The flowers are 10 millimeters long and have a diameter of 9 millimeters at the mouth. Your outer tepals are almost not fused together. The stamens and the stylus barely protrude from the flower.
Systematics and distribution
Aloe droseroides is distributed in Madagascar in a very small area on southwest facing Cipolin cliffs at altitudes of about 1400 meters. The species is only known from the locality where it is found in abundance.
The first description by John Jacob Lavranos and Thomas A. McCoy was published in 2003.
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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. 207 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ 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. 91.
- ^ John J. Lavranos, Tom McCoy: Two new species of Aloe from Madagascar In: Cactus and Succulent Journal . Volume 75, Number 6, Cactus and Succulent Society of America, 2003, pp. 256-262.
Web links
- Photos of Aloe droseroides