Aloe fouriei

Aloe fouriei
Systematics
	Monocots
Order :	Asparagales (Asparagales)
Family :	Grass trees (Xanthorrhoeaceae)
Subfamily :	Affodilla family (Asphodeloideae)
Genre :	Aloes ( aloe )
Type :	Aloe fouriei
Scientific name
	Aloe fouriei
	DS Hardy & Glen

Aloe fouriei is a species of the genus Aloes in the subfamily of the Affodilla family (Asphodeloideae). The specific epithet fouriei honors Stephanus P. Fourie from the then Transvaal Nature Conservation Division, who discovered the species.

description

Vegetative characteristics

Aloe fouriei grows stem-forming, is simple or forms small groups. The trunk is about six inches long and covered with the bases of dead leaves. The triangular leaves are arranged in two rows. The grass-green leaf blade is 27.5 to 35 inches long and 1 to 2.5 inches wide. The teeth on the leaf edge are about 0.4 millimeters long and 2.5 millimeters apart.

Inflorescences and flowers

The simple inflorescence reaches a length of about 40 centimeters. The rather dense, heady grapes consist of about 20 flowers. The bracts have a length of about 16 millimeters and are 8 millimeters wide. The orange flowers turn greenish towards the tip. They stand on 23 to 45 millimeter long flower stalks . The flowers are 35 to 40 millimeters long and rounded at their base. At the level of the ovary , the flowers have a diameter of 11 to 13 millimeters. Above that, they are narrowed to 6 to 8 millimeters towards the mouth. Your outer tepals are not fused together. The stamens and the stylus barely protrude from the flower.

Systematics and distribution

Aloe fouriei is common in the South African province of Mpumalanga on steep grass slopes on dolomite at altitudes of 1000 to 1800 meters.

The first description by David Spencer Hardy and Hugh Francis Glen was published in 1987.

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. 135 .
Leonard Eric Newton: Aloe fouriei . In: Urs Eggli (Hrsg.): Succulent lexicon. Monocotyledons . Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-8001-3662-7 , pp. 138 .

Individual evidence

↑ Urs Eggli, Leonard E. Newton: Etymological Dictionary of Succulent Plant Names . Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-642-05597-3 , p. 86.
^ Flowering Plants of Africa . Volume 49, Numbers 3-4, 1987, panel 1941.

Web links

Aloe fouriei 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. 86.

[2] Flowering Plants of Africa . Volume 49, Numbers 3-4, 1987, panel 1941.