Aloe komaggasensis
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Aloe komaggasensis is a species of the genus Aloes in the subfamily of the Affodilla family (Asphodeloideae). The specific epithet komaggasensis refers to the occurrence of the species in Komaggas in South Africa.
description
Vegetative characteristics
Aloe komaggasensis usually grows solitary and without a trunk or with a short, prostrate trunk. The approximately 15 spread to ascending, broadly triangular, pointed leaves form a rosette . Their blue-green, indistinctly striped leaf blades are 30 to 45 centimeters long and 10 to 13 centimeters wide. It is often covered with a few pale spots. The white or pale yellow leaf margin is serrated. The leaf juice dries orange-yellow.
Inflorescences and flowers
The inflorescence is densely branched and reaches a length of 80 to 100 centimeters. The rather dense grapes are heady. The triangular bracts have a length of 8 to 15 millimeters and are 2 to 6 millimeters wide. The cylindrical, yellow or rarely orange flowers are on 10 to 15 millimeter long pedicels and are 20 millimeters long. At the level of the ovary , the flowers have a diameter of 4.5 millimeters. Your outer tepals are not fused together over a length of 4 millimeters. The stamens and the stylus barely protrude from the flower.
Systematics and distribution
Aloe komaggasensis is widespread in the South African province of North Cape in the open xerophytic bush on quartz slopes. The species is only known from the locality of the type.
The first description by Kobus Kritzinger and Ernst Jacobus van Jaarsveld was published in 1985.
A nomenclature synonym is Aloe striata subsp. komaggasensis (Kritz. & van Jaarsv.) Glen & DSHardy (1987).
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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. 334 .
- Leonard Eric Newton: Aloe striata subsp. komaggasensis . In: Urs Eggli (Hrsg.): Succulent lexicon. Monocotyledons . Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-8001-3662-7 , pp. 182 .
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. 94.
- ^ South African Journal of Botany . Volume 51, Number 4, 1985, p. 287.
- ^ Hugh Francis Glen, David Spencer Hardy: In: South African Journal of Botany . Volume 53, Number 6, 1987, p. 491.
Web links
- Aloe komaggasensis on the Red List of South African Plants