Aloe fievetii

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

Aloe fievetii is a species of the genus Aloes in the subfamily of the Affodilla plants (Asphodeloideae). The specific epithet fievetii honors the winemaker and succulent lover Gerard Fievet from Madagascar.

description

Vegetative characteristics

Aloe fievetii grows without a stem or with a short stem and is usually simple. The twelve to 16 lanceolate, pointed leaves form a dense rosette . The green, light reddish tinged leaf blade is 35 centimeters long and 5 to 6 centimeters wide. There are three to four small teeth on the slightly twisted tip of the blade. The pink teeth on the pink edge of the leaf are 2 to 3 millimeters long and 7 to 10 millimeters apart.

Inflorescences and flowers

The inflorescence is simple or has a branch. It reaches a length of up to 50 centimeters. The dense, straight-headed grapes are about 9 inches long and 4 inches wide. The egg-shaped, pointed, reddish brown bracts have a length of 5 millimeters and are just as wide. The slightly club-shaped, orange-colored flowers are on 30 millimeter long peduncles . The flowers are 27 to 30 millimeters long and rounded at their base. At the level of the ovary , they have a diameter of 5 to 6 millimeters. They are expanded beyond that. Your tepals are not fused together over a length of 14 millimeters. The stamens and the stylus barely protrude from the flower.

Systematics and distribution

Aloe fievetii is distributed in Madagascar on grassy humus pockets on granite rocks at an altitude of 1200 meters.

The first description by Gilbert Westacott Reynolds was published in 1965. A distinction is made between the following varieties :

Aloe fievetii var. Fievetii
Aloe fievetii var. Ambatofinandrahanensis J.-B.Castillon

Aloe fievetii var. Ambatofinandrahanensis
The first description by Jean-Bernard Castillon was published in 2010.

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. 255 .
Leonard Eric Newton: Aloe fievetii . In: Urs Eggli (Hrsg.): Succulent lexicon. Monocotyledons . Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-8001-3662-7 , pp. 137 .

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. 92.
^ Journal of South African Botany . Volume 31, number 4, Kirstenbosch 1965, pp. 279-281.
^ Jean-Bernard Castillon: In: International Cactus Adventures . Number 85, 2010, p. 7.

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[1] 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. 92.

[2] Journal of South African Botany . Volume 31, number 4, Kirstenbosch 1965, pp. 279-281.

[3] Jean-Bernard Castillon: In: International Cactus Adventures . Number 85, 2010, p. 7.