Aloe framesii

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

Aloe framesii is a species of aloes in the subfamily of the Affodilla family (Asphodeloideae). The specific epithet framesii honors the South African lawyer, collector and succulent grower Percival Ross Frames (1863–1947), who collected the first plants of this species.

description

Vegetative characteristics

Aloe framesii grows with prostrate trunks, is richly branched and forms dense groups with up to 20 rosettes and diameters of up to 3 meters. The lanceolate, pointed leaves form dense rosettes . The cloudy gray-green to slightly bluish green leaf blade is 30 to 35 centimeters long and 7 to 8 centimeters wide. There may be white spots on it. The piercing, reddish brown teeth on the leaf margin are about 3 millimeters long and 10 millimeters apart.

Inflorescences and flowers

The occasionally simple inflorescence usually consists of two to three branches. It reaches a length of up to 70 centimeters. The rather dense, conical to cylindrical, pointed grapes are up to 25 centimeters long and 10 centimeters wide. The egg-shaped-pointed, reddish bracts have a length of 20 millimeters and are 9 millimeters wide. The cloudy scarlet flowers are sometimes tipped green. They stand on 25 to 30 millimeter long flower stalks . The flowers are 35 millimeters long and rounded at their base. Above the ovary they are not narrowed. Your outer tepals are not fused together. The stamens and the style protrude 5 to 6 millimeters from the flower.

genetics

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

Systematics and distribution

Aloe framesii is common in the South African provinces of the North Cape and Western Cape on sandy coastal plains or sandstone.

The first description by Harriet Margaret Louisa Bolus was published in 1933. Synonyms are Aloe amoena Pillans (1933) and Aloe microstigma subsp. framesii (L. Bolus) Glen & DS Hardy (2000).

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. 569 .
Leonard Eric Newton: Aloe framesii . In: Urs Eggli (Hrsg.): Succulent lexicon. Monocotyledons . Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-8001-3662-7 , pp. 139 .

Individual evidence

↑ Urs Eggli, Leonard E. Newton: Etymological Dictionary of Succulent Plant Names . Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-642-05597-3 , p. 87.
^ South African Gardening . Volume 23, 1933, p. 140.

Web links

Commons : Aloe microstigma subsp. framesii - collection of images

Aloe microstigma subsp. framesii 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. 87.

[2] South African Gardening . Volume 23, 1933, p. 140.