Aloe meyeri
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Aloe meyeri is a species of aloes in the subfamily of the Affodilla plants (Asphodeloideae). The specific epithet meyeri honors the German missionary Louis G. Meyer (1867–1958).
description
Vegetative characteristics
Aloe meyeri grows trunk-forming, is simple or branched from the base. The hanging trunks reach a length of up to 100 centimeters. The lanceolate, pointed leaves form a rosette . Below the rosette, the leaves are persistent on a short piece. The glauke , noticeably powdery, slightly striped leaf blade is 20 centimeters long and 3.5 centimeters wide. The white teeth on the leaf margin are 2 millimeters long and 5 to 8 millimeters apart.
Inflorescences and flowers
The pendulous-back-bent inflorescence is simple or rarely branched and reaches a length of 150 to 250 centimeters. The heady grapes are about 7 inches long and 8 inches wide. The deltoid pointed bracts have a length of 5 millimeters and are 3 millimeters wide. The somewhat club-shaped, orange-red, green-tipped flowers stand on 20 millimeter long peduncles . They are up to 20 millimeters long and rounded at their base. At the level of the ovary , the flowers have a diameter of about 3.5 millimeters. In addition, they are expanded to 4 to 5 millimeters towards the mouth. Your outer tepals are not fused together. The stamens protrude up to 3 mm and the pen does not project or hardly out from the flower.
Systematics and distribution
Aloe meyeri is widespread in Namibia and the South African province of North Cape on exposed, south-facing cliffs.
The first description by Ernst Jacobus van Jaarsveld was published in 1981. A synonym is Aloe richtersveldensis Venter & Beukes (1982).
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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. 484 .
- Leonard Eric Newton: Aloe Meyeri . In: Urs Eggli (Hrsg.): Succulent lexicon. Monocotyledons . Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-8001-3662-7 , pp. 159 .
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. 96.
- ^ Journal of South African Botany . Volume 47, number 3, Kirstenbosch 1981, pp. 567-571.
Web links
- Aloe meyeri in the Red List of South African Plants