Aloe elegans

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

Aloe elegans is a species of aloes in the subfamily of the Affodill family (Asphodeloideae). The specific epithet elegans comes from Latin , means 'elegant' and refers to the appearance of the species.

description

Vegetative characteristics

Aloe elegans grows without a stem or forms short stems with age, is usually simple and only divides into two to three rosettes . The prostrate trunks are up to 30 centimeters long. The 16 to 20 lanceolate, pointed leaves form dense rosettes . The gray-green leaf blade is up to about 60 centimeters long and 15 centimeters wide. There are short teeth at its tip. The piercing, brownish-red teeth on the reddish leaf margin are 3 to 4 millimeters long and 15 to 25 millimeters apart. The leaf sap is dry reddish brown.

Inflorescences and flowers

The inflorescence consists of eight branches and reaches a length of up to 100 centimeters. The lower branches are occasionally branched again. The dense, broadly cylindrical, almost head-shaped grapes are up to 8 inches long and 7 inches wide. The buds are spread horizontally to slightly nodding. The egg-shaped pointed bracts have a length of about 8 millimeters and are 2 to 3 millimeters wide. The slightly club-shaped, yellow, orange or scarlet red flowers are on 15 millimeter long peduncles . The flowers are 25 to 30 millimeters long and briefly narrowed at their base. At the level of the ovary , the flowers have a diameter of 6 millimeters. Above this they are slightly narrowed and finally widened towards the mouth. Your outer tepals are not fused together over a length of 13 to 15 millimeters. The stamens and the pen stand out 3 to 4 millimeters from the flower.

Systematics and distribution

Aloe elegans is in the province of Tigray in Ethiopia and Eritrea spread in the open bush on rocky slopes at elevations from 1,600 to 2,500 meters.

The first description by Agostino Todaro was published in 1882.

Synonyms are Aloe abyssinica var. Peacockii Baker (1880), Aloe vera var. Aethiopica Schweinf. (1894), Aloe aethiopica (Schweinf.) A.Berger (1905), Aloe schweinfurthii Hook.f. (1899, nom. Illeg. ICBN -Article 53.1), Aloe peacockii A.Berger (1905), Aloe percrassa var. Saganeitiana A.Berger (1908) and Aloe abyssinica A.Berger (1908, nom. Illeg. ICBN -Article 53.1 ).

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. 373 .
Leonard Eric Newton: Aloe elegans . In: Urs Eggli (Hrsg.): Succulent lexicon. Monocotyledons . Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-8001-3662-7 , pp. 134 .

Individual evidence

↑ Urs Eggli, Leonard E. Newton: Etymological Dictionary of Succulent Plant Names . Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-642-05597-3 , p. 74.
↑ Agostino Todaro: Hortus Botanicus Panormitanus . Volume 2, 1882, p. 25, plate 29 ( online ).

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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 , p. 74.

[2] Agostino Todaro: Hortus Botanicus Panormitanus . Volume 2, 1882, p. 25, plate 29 ( online ).