Aloe monotropa
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Aloe monotropa is a species of aloes in the subfamily of the Affodilla plants (Asphodeloideae). The specific epithet monotropa comes from the Greek , means 'hermit' and refers to the unique combination of characteristics.
description
Vegetative characteristics
Aloe monotropa grows stem-forming, is simple or sprouts occasionally. The more or less prostrate trunks reach a length of up to 30 centimeters. The approximately 20 ovate-lanceolate, long narrowed leaves form a loose rosette that is persistent below the tip of the shoot. The green, lined leaf blade is about 33 inches long and 6 inches wide. On it there are white elongated or H-shaped spots. On the underside of the leaf, the spots are sometimes arranged in transverse bands. The brown pointed teeth on the leaf margin are about 2 millimeters long.
Inflorescences and flowers
The inflorescence has about six branches and reaches a length of about 80 centimeters. The lower branches are branched again. The loose grapes are cylindrical. Terminal grapes are about 10 to 26 centimeters long, lateral ones consist of single-sided flowers and are 6 to 18 centimeters long. The deltoid pointed bracts have a length of 6 to 8 millimeters and are 2.5 millimeters wide. The old pink, rarely yellow, slightly frosted flowers are on 7 to 10 millimeter long peduncles . They are about 30 millimeters long and trimmed at their base. At the level of the ovary , the flowers have a diameter of 5 millimeters. Above this they are abruptly narrowed and finally widened towards the mouth. Your outer tepals are not fused together over a length of 7 millimeters. The stamens and the stylus barely protrude from the flower.
Systematics and distribution
Aloe monotropa is widespread in the South African province of Limpopo in the shade on wooded dolomite slopes at altitudes of 1000 to 1400 meters.
The first description by Inez Clare Verdoorn was published in 1961.
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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. 178 .
- Leonard Eric Newton: Aloe monotropa . In: Urs Eggli (Hrsg.): Succulent lexicon. Monocotyledons . Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-8001-3662-7 , pp. 161 .
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.
- ^ Flowering Plants of Africa . Volume 34, 1961, plate 1342.
Web links
- Aloe monotropa in the Red List of South African Plants