Aloe lomatophylloides

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

Aloe lomatophylloides is a species of aloes in the subfamily of the Affodilla family (Asphodeloideae). The specific epithet lomatophylloides is derived from the name of the genus Lomatophyllum and from the Greek word -oides for 'similar'.

description

Vegetative characteristics

Aloe lomatophylloides grows with a prostrate, short, 3 to 4 centimeter thick trunk. The lanceolate to sword-shaped leaves form a dense rosette . The dark green leaf blade is 50 to 75 inches long and 8 inches wide.

Inflorescences and flowers

The upright inflorescence has two to three branches and reaches a length of 10 to 12 centimeters. The rather dense grapes are cylindrical. The lanceolate bracts have a length of 1.5 to 4 millimeters. The orange-red flowers are on stems 20 to 23 millimeters long . They are 14 to 21 millimeters long and narrowed at their base. Above the ovary , the flowers are slightly narrowed and finally expanded towards the mouth. Your outer tepals are not fused together over a length of 5 to 10 millimeters. The stamens and the stylus do not protrude from the flower.

fruit

The fruits are berries .

Systematics and distribution

Aloe lomatophylloides is on to Mauritius belonging to Rodrigues Island endemic.

The first description by Isaac Bayley Balfour was published in 1877. A synonym is Lomatophyllum lomatophylloides (Balf.f.) Marais (1975).

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. 586 .
Leonard Eric Newton: Aloe lomatophylloides . In: Urs Eggli (Hrsg.): Succulent lexicon. Monocotyledons . Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-8001-3662-7 , pp. 153-154 .

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. 95.
^ Journal of the Linnean Society. Botany . Volume 16, 1877, p. 22 ( online ).

Web links

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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. 95.

[2] Journal of the Linnean Society. Botany . Volume 16, 1877, p. 22 ( online ).