Aloe khamiesensis

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

Aloe khamiesensis is a species of aloes in the subfamily of the Affodilla plants (Asphodeloideae). The specific epithet khamiesensis refers to the occurrence on the Kamiesberg in South Africa, where the species was first collected.

description

Vegetative characteristics

Aloe khamiesensis grows trunk-forming, single or branched from about the middle. The up to 1.5 meter long trunks have a diameter of 10 to 15 centimeters. They are covered with the persistent remains of the dry leaf bases. The lanceolate, narrowed leaves form dense rosettes . Their cloudy green, indistinctly lined leaf blade is about 40 centimeters long and 8 centimeters wide. There are a few scattered, elliptical, white spots on the leaf surface, which are more numerous on the underside of the leaf. The stinging, reddish teeth on the leaf margin are 2 to 4 millimeters long and 5 to 10 millimeters apart.

Inflorescences and flowers

The inflorescence consists of four to eight branches and is up to 90 centimeters long. The dense, long-conical grapes are 25 to 30 centimeters long and 9 centimeters wide. The egg-shaped-pointed bracts have a length of 18 millimeters and are 8 millimeters wide. The orange-red, greenish tipped flowers stand on 25 millimeter long flower stalks . The flowers are 30 to 35 millimeters long and rounded at their base. Above the ovary they are very slightly narrowed. Your outer tepals are not fused together. The stamens and the pen stand 2 to 4 millimeters out from the flower.

genetics

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

Systematics, distribution and endangerment

Aloe khamiesensis is distributed in the South African province of North Cape in southern Namaqualand on rocky slopes in the mountains at altitudes of 700 to 1500 meters, mostly on granite-like rocks.

The first description by Neville Stuart Pillans was published in 1934.

About the threat of aloe khamiesensis are the endangered species red list of the IUCN no adequate data.

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. 658 .
• Leonard E. Newton: Aloe khamiesensis . In: Urs Eggli (Hrsg.): Succulent lexicon. Monocotyledons . Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-8001-3662-7 , pp. 149-150 .

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. 126.
2. ↑ 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. 658 .
3. ^ South African Gardening . Volume 24, 1934, p. 25.
4. ↑ Aloe khamiesensis in the endangered Red List species the IUCN 2012. Posted by: Hilton-Taylor, C., 1998. Accessed August 27, 2012th

Web links

• Entry at PlantZAfrica.com