Aloe micracantha

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

Aloe micracantha is a species of aloes in the subfamily of the Affodill family (Asphodeloideae). The specific epithet micracantha is derived from the Greek words mikros for 'small' and akantha for 'thorn' and refers to the small teeth on the edge of the leaf.

description

Vegetative characteristics

Aloe micracantha grows without a stem or with a very short stem, is single or branched once or twice. The thick roots are spindle-shaped. The 12 to 18 deltoid pointed leaves are arranged in multiple rows on the shoot. The deep green to yellowish green leaf blade is up to 50 centimeters long and 0.3 centimeters wide. It is covered with many white, slightly warty and slightly finely prickly spots. The firm, white teeth on the leaf margin are up to 2 millimeters long and 1 to 3 millimeters apart.

Inflorescences and flowers

The simple inflorescence reaches a length of 40 to 50 centimeters. The dense, heady grapes are about 8 inches long and 9 inches wide. The ovoid, pointed bracts have a length of 35 millimeters and are somewhat fleshy near their base. The salmon-red flowers are on stems 20 to 35 millimeters long . They are 25 to 40 millimeters long and narrowed briefly at their base. At the level of the ovary , the flowers have a diameter of 12 millimeters. They are slightly narrowed above this. Your outer tepals are almost not fused together. The stamens and the stylus barely protrude from the flower.

Systematics and distribution

Aloe micracantha is widespread in the South African province of Eastern Cape on permeable, sandy to stony soils at heights of 50 to 700 meters.

The first description by Adrian Hardy Haworth was published in 1819. Aloe micracantha Link & Otto (1825, nom. Illeg. ICBN -Article 53.1) is a synonym .

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. 144 .
Leonard Eric Newton: Aloe micracantha . 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.
^ Adrian Hardy Haworth: Supplementum Plantarum Succulentarum: Sistens Plantas Novas Vel Nuper Introductas Sive Omissas In: Synopsis Plantarum Succulentarum Cum Observationibus Variis Anglicanis . J. Harding, London 1819, p. 105 ( online ).

Web links

Aloe micracantha in the Red List of South African Plants

[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. 96.

[2] Adrian Hardy Haworth: Supplementum Plantarum Succulentarum: Sistens Plantas Novas Vel Nuper Introductas Sive Omissas In: Synopsis Plantarum Succulentarum Cum Observationibus Variis Anglicanis . J. Harding, London 1819, p. 105 ( online ).