Aloe haworthioides

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

Aloe haworthioides is a species of aloes in the subfamily of the Affodilla family (Asphodeloideae). The specific epithet haworthioides is derived from the genus Haworthia and the Greek word -oides for 'similar'.

description

Vegetative characteristics

Aloe haworthioides grows without a stem, is solitary or sprouting and then forming dense groups. Their roots are spindle-shaped. The approximately 30 narrow, lanceolate-deltoid leaves form dense rosettes . Your dark gray-green leaf blade is 3 to 4 inches long. The tip of the leaf is short and translucent. There are many white pustules on the leaf surface, each of which is occasionally tipped with a short white hair . The narrow deltoid, soft to firm, white teeth are 1 to 2 millimeters long and are crowded on the leaf margin.

Inflorescences and flowers

The simple inflorescence is 20 to 30 centimeters long. The rather dense, cylindrical and slightly tapering grapes are 4 to 6 inches long and 1.2 inches wide. They consist of 20 to 30 flowers . The almost circular, blunt bracts have a short pointed tip and are 5 millimeters long. Flower stalks are absent or negligibly short. The white to light pink, slightly bell-shaped flowers are 6 to 8 millimeters long. Your outer tepals are not fused together. The stamens and the stylus protrude 5 millimeters from the flower.

Systematics and distribution

Aloe haworthioides is common in Madagascar .

The first description by John Gilbert Baker was published in 1886. Nomenclatory synonyms are Aloinella haworthioides (Baker) Lemée (1939, nom. Inval. ICBN -Article 43.1) and Lemeea haworthioides (Baker) PVHeath (1993) .

A distinction is made between the following varieties :

• Aloe haworthioides var. Haworthioides
• Aloe haworthioides var. Aurantiaca H.Perrier

Aloe haworthioides var. Aurantiaca
The differences to Aloe haworthioides var. Haworthioides are: The flower clusters are bright orange-red including the flower axis, bracts and flowers.

The first description of the variety by Henri Perrier de La Bâthie was published in 1926.

Danger

Aloe haworthioides , including the variety Aloe haworthioides var. Aurantiaca , is listed in Appendix I of the Washington Convention on Endangered Species .

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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. 394-395 .
• Leonard Eric Newton: Aloe haworthioides . In: Urs Eggli (Hrsg.): Succulent lexicon. Monocotyledons . Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-8001-3662-7 , pp. 143-144 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Urs Eggli, Leonard E. Newton: Etymological Dictionary of Succulent Plant Names . Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-642-05597-3 , p. 105.
2. ^ John Gilbert Baker: Further Contributions to the Flora of Madagascar . In: Journal of the Linnean Society. Botany . Volume 22, 1886, p. 529 ( online ).
3. ^ H. Perrier: Les Lomatophyllum et les Aloë de Madagascar . In: Mémoires de la Société Linnéenne de Normandie. Botanique . Volume 1, Number 1, 1926, p. 50.
4. ↑ Appendices I, II and III valid from April 3, 2012 . (accessed on August 22, 2012).

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