Aloe mawii

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

Aloe mawii is a species of aloes in the subfamily of the Affodilla family (Asphodeloideae). The specific epithet mawii honors AH Maw, owner of the land on which the type specimen was found.

description

Vegetative characteristics

Aloe mawii grows without a stem or usually in a stem-forming manner, is solitary or has few side shoots. The upright trunk is up to 2 meters long and 10 to 12 centimeters wide. The 20 or more lanceolate, sword-shaped leaves form dense rosettes . The greyish green or green - with a bluish tinge - and somewhat striped leaf blade is up to 60 centimeters long and 10 centimeters wide. The leaf surface is smooth. The pinkish tipped teeth on the narrow reddish leaf margin are 3 to 4 millimeters long and 7 to 15 millimeters apart. The leaf sap is yellow.

Inflorescences and flowers

The crooked inflorescence is simple or consists of a branch and reaches a length of up to 100 centimeters. The dense, crooked or horizontal grapes are 30 centimeters long and consist of single-sided flowers. The triangular-pointed, briefly sharply pointed bracts have a length of 1 millimeter and are 3 millimeters wide. The red or orange-colored, bulbous flowers are on 1 to 2 millimeter long peduncles . They are 35 to 40 millimeters (rarely up to 48 millimeters) long and rounded at their base. At the level of the ovary , the flowers are 7 millimeters in diameter. Above it, they are expanded to 10 millimeters and finally narrowed towards the mouth. Your tepals are not fused together over a length of 22 millimeters. The stamens and the style stick out about 12 millimeters from the flower. The stamens have purple-colored filaments and orange-colored anthers. The stylus is orange.

genetics

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

Systematics and distribution

Aloe mawii is common in Malawi , Mozambique and southern Tanzania on rocky slopes at altitudes of 550 to 1830 meters.

The first description by Hugh Basil Christian was published in 1940.

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. 654 .
Leonard Eric Newton: Aloe mawii . In: Urs Eggli (Hrsg.): Succulent lexicon. Monocotyledons . Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-8001-3662-7 , pp. 157 .

Individual evidence

↑ Urs Eggli, Leonard E. Newton: Etymological Dictionary of Succulent Plant Names . Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-642-05597-3 , p. 149.
^ Journal of South African Botany . Volume 6, number 4, Kirstenbosch 1940, pp. 186-188.

Web links

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[1] Urs Eggli, Leonard E. Newton: Etymological Dictionary of Succulent Plant Names . Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-642-05597-3 , p. 149.

[2] Journal of South African Botany . Volume 6, number 4, Kirstenbosch 1940, pp. 186-188.