Aloe lutescens
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Aloe lutescens is a species of aloes in the subfamily of the Affodilla plants (Asphodeloideae). The specific epithet lutescens comes from Latin and means 'turning yellow'.
description
Vegetative characteristics
Aloe lutescens grows trunk-forming, mostly divides and forms dense groups. The upright to prostrate trunks are up to 80 centimeters long. The approximately 30 lanceolate, narrowed leaves form dense rosettes . The cloudy to semi-glossy yellowish green leaf blade is 50 to 60 centimeters long and 8 to 9 centimeters wide. The pinkish-reddish brown teeth on the leaf margin are about 2 millimeters long and 3 to 5 millimeters apart.
Inflorescences and flowers
The inflorescence consists of three branches located in a vertical plane and reaches a length of 1 to 1.5 meters. The cylindrical, pointed grapes are 35 to 40 centimeters long and 7 centimeters wide. The egg-shaped pointed bracts have a length of 15 millimeters and are just as wide. The yellow flowers occasionally have a slightly reddish base. They open from green-tipped buds. The flowers are on stalks up to 15 millimeters long . They are 30 to 35 millimeters long and rounded at their base. Above the ovary , the flowers are narrowed. Your tepals are not fused together. The stamens and the stylus barely protrude from the flower.
genetics
The number of chromosomes is .
Systematics and distribution
Aloe lutescens is common near the Limpopo River. The distribution area extends from the southeast of Botswana eastwards to the south of Zimbabwe and from the northeast of South Africa to Mozambique . The plants grow in the shade of trees or bushes on dry rocks or stony slopes at heights of 200 to 1200 meters.
The first description by Barend Hermanus Groenewald was published in 1938.
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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. 583 .
- Leonard Eric Newton: Aloe lutescens . In: Urs Eggli (Hrsg.): Succulent lexicon. Monocotyledons . Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-8001-3662-7 , pp. 154 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Urs Eggli, Leonard E. Newton: Etymological Dictionary of Succulent Plant Names . Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-642-05597-3 , p. 142.
- ^ Flowering Plants of South Africa . Volume 18, 1938, plate 707.
Web links
- Aloe lutescens on the Red List of South African Plants