Aloe hazeliana var. Howmanii
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Aloe hazeliana var. Howmanii is a variety of the plant species Aloe hazeliana from the genus of aloes in the subfamily of the Affodilla family (Asphodeloideae). The epithet howmanii honors Roger Howman, who discovered the species.
description
Vegetative characteristics
Aloe hazeliana var. Howmanii grows trunk-forming, is simple or branched from the base. The hanging shoots reach a length of up to 30 centimeters and a diameter of 1.2 centimeters. The six to twelve linear, mostly crescent-shaped leaves are arranged in two rows. The green leaf blade is 15 to 20 inches long and 1.2 to 1.5 inches wide. Their tips are blunt or finely pointed. Occasionally there are a few small white spots on the underside near the base. The 1.5 millimeter wide leaf margin is translucent and hyaline. The teeth on the leaf margin are missing or they are tiny and 2 to 4 millimeters apart.
Inflorescences and flowers
The descending, simple inflorescence reaches a length of 20 to 25 centimeters. The rather dense, upwardly curved, almost heady and slightly conical grapes are 4 to 5 centimeters long and consist of about 12 to 18 flowers. The ovate-pointed bracts are 3 to 4 millimeters long and 2 millimeters wide. The slightly pinkish, scarlet, green-tipped flowers stand on 10 to 15 millimeter long peduncles . The flowers are 24 millimeters long and narrowed briefly at their base. At the level of the ovary , the flowers have a diameter of 5 millimeters. Above it slightly widened and finally narrowed to the mouth. Your outer tepals are not fused together.
Systematics and distribution
Aloe hazeliana var. Howmanii is common in Zimbabwe on cliff walls at altitudes of 1500 to 2300 meters.
The first description as Aloe howmanii by Gilbert Westacott Reynolds was published in 1961. Susan Carter introduced the species in 2001 as a variety to Aloe hazeliana .
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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 hlangapies . In: Urs Eggli (Hrsg.): Succulent lexicon. Monocotyledons . Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-8001-3662-7 , pp. 145-146 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Urs Eggli, Leonard E. Newton: Etymological Dictionary of Succulent Plant Names . Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-642-05597-3 , p. 111.
- ↑ Kirkia . Volume 1, 1961, pp. 156-157, plate 15.
- ^ GV Pope (Ed.): Flora Zambesiaca . Volume 12, Part 3, 2001, p. 61 ( online ).