Aloe hazeliana
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Aloe hazeliana is a species of aloes in the subfamily of the Affodilla family (Asphodeloideae). The specific epithet hazeliana honors Hazel O. Munch (née Elske) (1912–2001).
description
Vegetative characteristics
Aloe guillaumetii grows trunk-forming and sparsely branched from the base. The trunks reach a length of up to 50 centimeters and are 1.5 centimeters thick. The roughly twelve linear, long, pointed leaves are scattered in two rows along the trunks over 15 centimeters. The bright green leaf blade is up to 20 inches long and 1 to 1.5 inches wide. Its tip is blunt. On it there are occasionally a few small scattered elliptical, light green spots near the base. The firm, white teeth on the narrow, translucent edge of the leaf are 0.5 millimeters long and 5 millimeters apart. There are many spots on the 10 to 15 millimeter long leaf sheaths .
Inflorescences and flowers
The simple inflorescence reaches a length of 30 to 40 centimeters. The loose, cylindrical grapes are 8 to 10 inches long and 4 inches wide. They consist of about 18 flowers. The egg-shaped-pointed, slightly fleshy bracts have a length of 4 millimeters and are 3 millimeters wide. The scarlet, green-tipped flowers are on stems up to 13 millimeters long . The flowers are 25 millimeters long and briefly narrowed at their base. At the level of the ovary , the flowers have a diameter of 6 millimeters. They are not expanded beyond this to the mouth. Your outer tepals are not fused together. The stamens and the stylus barely protrude from the flower.
Systematics and distribution
Aloe hazeliana is widespread in the border area between Mozambique and Zimbabwe in humus pockets and rock crevices at altitudes of 1200 to 2100 meters.
The first description by Gilbert Westacott Reynolds was published in 1959. A distinction is made between the following varieties :
- Aloe hazeliana var. Hazeliana
- Aloe hazeliana var. Howmanii (Reynolds) S. Carter
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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. 132 .
- Leonard Eric Newton: Aloe hazeliana . In: Urs Eggli (Hrsg.): Succulent lexicon. Monocotyledons . Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-8001-3662-7 , pp. 144 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Urs Eggli, Leonard E. Newton: Etymological Dictionary of Succulent Plant Names . Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-642-05597-3 , p. 105.
- ^ Journal of South African Botany . Volume 25, number 4, Kirstenbosch 1959, pp. 279-281.