Aloe hereroensis

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

Aloe hereroensis is a species of aloes in the subfamily of the Affodilla family (Asphodeloideae). The specific epithet hereroensis refers to the occurrence of the species in theareas inhabitedby the Herero .

description

Vegetative characteristics

Aloe hereroensis grows without a stem or usually with a very short stem, is usually single or forms small groups. Occasionally a trunk up to 1 meter long is formed with age. The approximately 30 lanceolate-deltoid leaves form a dense rosette . The strongly glauke , indistinctly lined to furrowed leaf blade is 30 to 40 centimeters long and 6 to 8 centimeters wide. Occasionally few or many irregularly scattered, whitish spots are present on the underside of the leaf. The piercing, sometimes two-pointed, reddish brown to brownish teeth on the leaf margin are 3 to 4 millimeters long and 8 to 15 millimeters apart.

Inflorescences and flowers

The inflorescence has four to eight branches and is about 100 centimeters long. The lower branches are occasionally branched again. The dense, heady, evenly exterior grapes are 6 to 8 inches long and 8 to 10 inches wide. The lanceolate-deltoid, narrowed bracts have a length of 20 millimeters and are 30 millimeters wide. The normally orange flowers are on 30 to 50 millimeter long peduncles . However, they can also have different shades of red or yellow. The flowers are 25 to 35 millimeters long and rounded at the base. At the level of the ovary , they have a diameter of 7 to 8 millimeters. Your outer tepals are not fused together over a length of 14 to 20 millimeters. The stamens protrude 2 to 4 millimeters and the stylus protrudes 5 millimeters from the flower.

genetics

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

Systematics and distribution

Aloe hereroensis is common in southern Angola , Namibia and the South African provinces of Northwest and Free State .

The first description by Adolf Engler was published in 1888.

Synonyms are Aloe hereroensis var. Hereroensis , Aloe orpeniae Schönland (1905), Aloe hereroensis var. Orpeniae (Schönland) A.Berger (1908) and Aloe hereroensis var. Lutea A.Berger (1908).

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. 321 .
Leonard Eric Newton: Aloe hereroensis . In: Urs Eggli (Hrsg.): Succulent lexicon. Monocotyledons . Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-8001-3662-7 , pp. 144-145 .

Individual evidence

↑ Gideon F. Smith, Colin C. Walker, Estrela Figueiredo: What's in a name: epithets in Aloe L. (Asphodelaceae) and what to call the next new species . In: Bradleya . Volume 28, 2010, p. 93.
^ Adolf Engler: Botanical yearbooks for systematics, plant history and plant geography . Volume 10, Leipzig 1888, p. 2 ( online ).

Web links

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Aloe hereroensis var. Hereroensis in the Red List of South African Plants

[1] Gideon F. Smith, Colin C. Walker, Estrela Figueiredo: What's in a name: epithets in Aloe L. (Asphodelaceae) and what to call the next new species . In: Bradleya . Volume 28, 2010, p. 93.

[2] Adolf Engler: Botanical yearbooks for systematics, plant history and plant geography . Volume 10, Leipzig 1888, p. 2 ( online ).