Aloe dyeri

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

Aloe dyeri is a species of the genus Aloes in the subfamily of the Affodilla family (Asphodeloideae). The specific epithet dyeri honors the British botanist William Turner Thiselton-Dyer .

description

Vegetative characteristics

Aloe dyeri usually grows singly, has no trunk or has a short trunk. The approximately 20 lanceolate, pointed leaves form dense rosettes . The leaf blade is about 60 to 70 inches long and 10 to 15 inches wide. On the green to yellowish green upper side of the leaf there are usually small elongated, whitish spots that are scattered or arranged in irregular transverse bands. The underside of the leaf is lighter and usually has more spots. The piercing, light brown teeth on the leaf margin are 5 to 6 millimeters long and 10 to 15 millimeters apart. The stamens and the stylus barely protrude from the flower.

Inflorescences and flowers

The inflorescence consists of up to 15 branches and is 150 to 200 centimeters long. The lower branches are also branched. The grapes are rather loose towards the tip, underneath loose, cylindrically pointed grapes are 12 to 25 centimeters long and 9 centimeters wide. The deltoid pointed bracts have a length of 10 to 13 millimeters. The cloudy brick-red flowers are on 10 to 13 millimeter long peduncles . The flowers are 35 millimeters long and trimmed at their base. At the level of the ovary , they have a diameter of 9 millimeters. Above this they are suddenly narrowed to 4.5 millimeters and finally widened to 8 millimeters towards their mouth. Your outer tepals are not fused together over a length of 8 millimeters.

genetics

The number of chromosomes is . ${\ displaystyle 2n = 14}$

Systematics and distribution

Aloe dyeri is widespread in the South African Profinz Mpumalanga in tall grass or between trees and bushes on shady, rocky slopes at altitudes of 915 to 1370 meters.

The first description by Selmar Schönland was published in 1905.

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. 199 .
Leonard Eric Newton: Aloe dyeri . In: Urs Eggli (Hrsg.): Succulent lexicon. Monocotyledons . Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-8001-3662-7 , pp. 133 .

Individual evidence

↑ Urs Eggli, Leonard E. Newton: Etymological Dictionary of Succulent Plant Names . Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-642-05597-3 , p. 71.
^ Record of the Albany Museum . Volume 1, Grahamstown 1905, pp. 289-290 ( online ).

Web links

Commons : Aloe dyeri - collection of images, videos and audio files

Aloe dyeri Schönland 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. 71.

[2] Record of the Albany Museum . Volume 1, Grahamstown 1905, pp. 289-290 ( online ).