Aloe kouebokkeveldensis

Aloe kouebokkeveldensis
	Aloe kouebokkeveldensis
Systematics
	Monocots
Order :	Asparagales (Asparagales)
Family :	Grass trees (Xanthorrhoeaceae)
Subfamily :	Affodilla family (Asphodeloideae)
Genre :	Aloes ( aloe )
Type :	Aloe kouebokkeveldensis
Scientific name
	Aloe kouebokkeveldensis
	van Jaarsv. & ABLow

Aloe kouebokkeveldensis is a species of the genus Aloes in the subfamily of the Affodill family (Asphodeloideae). The specific epithet kouebokkeveldensis refers to the occurrence of the species in the Koue Bokkeveld Mountains in South Africa.

description

Vegetative characteristics

Aloe kouebokkeveldensis grows without a trunk, is solitary or branched and forms small groups. The ascending, lanceolate leaves form upright or prostrate rosettes . The greyish to bluish white, indistinctly striped leaf blade is 40 to 48 centimeters long and 10 to 15 centimeters wide. It turns pale pink when dry. There are irregular, densely distributed spots on it. The pale pink-white teeth on the cartilaginous leaf margin are 1 millimeter long. The colorless leaf sap dries yellow.

Inflorescences and flowers

The inflorescence consists of up to 15 branches and reaches a length of 100 to 140 centimeters. The rather dense, heady grapes are 8 to 10 centimeters long. The bracts have a length of 5 to 8 millimeters and are 2 to 4 millimeters wide. The orange-red flowers are on 12 to 15 millimeter long peduncles . The flowers are 22 to 23 millimeters long. The base of the flower is swollen and 4 to 5 millimeters in diameter. Above that, the flowers are narrowed to 3 millimeters and finally expanded to 5 millimeters at the mouth. Your outer tepals are not fused together over a length of 7 millimeters. The stamens and the stylus barely protrude from the flower.

Systematics and distribution

Aloe kouebokkeveldensis is common in the Western Cape province of South Africa in a very small area on cliffs and steep slopes.

The first description by Ernst Jacobus van Jaarsveld and A. Barry Low was published in 2004.

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. 335 .

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.
^ Ernst Jacobus van Jaarsveld, Barry Low, B. van Wyk: Aloe kouebokkeveldensis: a new species from the Western Cape . In: Aloe . Volume 41, number 2-3, 2004, pp. 36-37.

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Aloe kouebokkeveldensis in the Red List of South African Plants
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[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. 94.

[2] Ernst Jacobus van Jaarsveld, Barry Low, B. van Wyk: Aloe kouebokkeveldensis: a new species from the Western Cape . In: Aloe . Volume 41, number 2-3, 2004, pp. 36-37.