Aloe hlangapies
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Aloe hlangapies is a species of aloes in the subfamily of the Affodill family (Asphodeloideae). The specific epithet hlangapies refers to the occurrence of the species on the Hlangapiesberg in South Africa.
description
Vegetative characteristics
Aloe hlangapies grows stemless or short stem-forming, is simple or branched from the base and forms small groups. The shoots reach a length of up to 15 centimeters. The ribbon-shaped, pointed leaves are arranged in two rows. The cloudy green leaf blade is 35 to 45 inches long and 5 to 6 inches wide. Occasionally there are a few white spots on it. On the underside, there are usually a lot of white spots near the base. The soft, white teeth on the leaf margin are about 0.5 millimeters long and 5 to 15 millimeters apart.
Inflorescences and flowers
The simple inflorescence reaches a length of about 50 centimeters. The dense, heady grapes are up to 7 inches long and 9 to 10 inches wide. They consist of about 50 flowers. The egg-shaped pointed bracts have a length of 15 millimeters and are 7 millimeters wide. The apricot-yellow, green-tipped flowers stand on 25 millimeter long flower stalks . The flowers are 28 to 30 millimeters long and rounded at their base. Above the ovary , the flowers are slightly widened and finally narrowed towards the mouth. Your outer tepals are not fused together over a length of 23 to 25 millimeters. The stamens and the stylus barely protrude from the flower.
Systematics and distribution
Aloe hlangapies is common in the South African provinces of KwaZulu-Natal and Mpumalanga on grasslands at altitudes of 1100 to 1600 meters.
The first description by Barend Hermanus Groenewald was published in 1936.
Synonyms are Aloe hlangapitis Groenew. (1936, nom. Inval. ICBN -Article 61.1) and Aloe hlangapensis Groenew. (1937, nom. Invalid ICBN -Article 61.1).
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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. 142 .
- Leonard Eric Newton: Aloe hlangapies . In: Urs Eggli (Hrsg.): Succulent lexicon. Monocotyledons . Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-8001-3662-7 , pp. 145 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Urs Eggli, Leonard E. Newton: Etymological Dictionary of Succulent Plant Names . Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-642-05597-3 , p. 110.
- ↑ Tydskrif vir Wetenskap en Kun . Volume 14, 1936, pp. 60-63.