Aloe erensii

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

Aloe erensii is a species of aloes in the subfamily of the Affodilla family (Asphodeloideae). The specific epithet erensii honors the Danish horticulturist and plant collector Jan Erens (1911–1982).

description

Vegetative characteristics

Aloe erensii grows without a trunk, is simple or has few offshoots. The approximately 16 to 19 ovate, pointed leaves form dense rosettes . The gray-green leaf blade is 21 inches long and 8 to 9 inches wide. It is covered with many elongated white spots arranged in transverse bands. The whitish teeth on the narrow, whitish, translucent edge of the leaf are 1 to 1.5 millimeters long and are 4 to 6 millimeters apart.

Inflorescences and flowers

The inflorescence consists of two to seven branches and reaches a length of up to 50 centimeters. The loose, cylindrical grapes are up to 21 centimeters long. The flowers on side branches are almost one-sided. The egg-shaped pointed bracts are 5 to 6 millimeters long and 3 millimeters wide. The pink, frosted flowers are on 8 to 9 millimeter long flower stalks . The flowers are 29 millimeters long and rounded at their base. At the level of the ovary , the flowers have a diameter of 10 millimeters. Above it, they are narrowed to 8 millimeters and finally expanded to 9 millimeters towards the mouth. Your outer tepals are not fused together over a length of 13 millimeters. The stamens and the style stick out about 2 millimeters from the flower.

genetics

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

Systematics and distribution

Aloe erensii is common in the southeast of Sudan on rocky slopes and cliffs at heights of about 800 meters.

The first description by Hugh Basil Christian was published in 1940.

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. 307 .
Leonard Eric Newton: Aloe erensii . In: Urs Eggli (Hrsg.): Succulent lexicon. Monocotyledons . Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-8001-3662-7 , pp. 135 .

Individual evidence

↑ Urs Eggli, Leonard E. Newton: Etymological Dictionary of Succulent Plant Names . Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-642-05597-3 , p. 77.
^ Flowering Plants of South Africa . Volume 20, 1940, plate 797.

[1] Urs Eggli, Leonard E. Newton: Etymological Dictionary of Succulent Plant Names . Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-642-05597-3 , p. 77.

[2] Flowering Plants of South Africa . Volume 20, 1940, plate 797.