Aloe guerrae

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

Aloe guerrae is a species of aloes in the subfamily of the Affodilla plants (Asphodeloideae). The specific epithet guerrae honors Guilherme Guerra, Director of Agriculture and Forestry in Angola.

description

Vegetative characteristics

Aloe guerrae grows easily and is stemless or short stem-forming. The approximately 24 lanceolate, narrowed leaves form dense rosettes , which are usually inclined to one side. The cloudy green, indistinctly lined leaf blade is 40 centimeters long and 6 to 7 centimeters wide. The piercing, light brown to reddish brown teeth on the leaf margin are 4 to 5 millimeters long and 10 to 15 millimeters apart. The leaf sap is dry yellow.

Inflorescences and flowers

The inflorescence consists of eight to ten branches and reaches a length of 90 to 100 centimeters. The lower branches are occasionally branched again. The rather dense, crooked to almost horizontal grapes are 20 centimeters long. They consist of single-sided flowers. The egg-shaped, pointed bracts are 6 to 8 millimeters long and 4 millimeters wide. The scarlet, frosted flowers stand on 5 millimeter long flower stalks . The flowers are 40 millimeters long and truncated at their base. At the level of the ovary , the flowers have a diameter of 8 millimeters. They are hardly narrowed beyond that. Your outer tepals are not fused together over a length of 10 to 12 millimeters. The stamens protrude 2 millimeters and the stylus protrudes 3 millimeters from the flower.

genetics

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

Systematics and distribution

Aloe guerrae is common in Angola on grasslands with scattered bushes at altitudes of 1200 to 1600 meters.

The first description by Gilbert Westacott Reynolds was published in 1960.

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. 327 .
Leonard Eric Newton: Aloe guerrae . In: Urs Eggli (Hrsg.): Succulent lexicon. Monocotyledons . Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-8001-3662-7 , pp. 143 .

Individual evidence

↑ Urs Eggli, Leonard E. Newton: Etymological Dictionary of Succulent Plant Names . Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-642-05597-3 , p. 100.
^ Journal of South African Botany . Volume 26, Number 2, Kirstenbosch 1960, pp. 85-87.

[1] Urs Eggli, Leonard E. Newton: Etymological Dictionary of Succulent Plant Names . Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-642-05597-3 , p. 100.

[2] Journal of South African Botany . Volume 26, Number 2, Kirstenbosch 1960, pp. 85-87.