Aloe occidentalis
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Aloe occidentalis is a species of aloes in the subfamily of the Affodill family (Asphodeloideae). The specific epithet occidentalis comes from Latin , means 'western' and refers to the distribution area in the west of Madagascar.
description
Vegetative characteristics
Aloe occidentalis grows stemless or stem-forming and simply. The upright trunks reach a length of up to 100 centimeters and are 6 to 10 centimeters thick. The lanceolate, narrowed leaves form a dense rosette . The greenish yellow leaf blade is 80 to 100 centimeters long and 10 to 12 centimeters wide. The greenish white teeth on the leaf margin are 4 millimeters long and 6 to 25 millimeters apart.
Inflorescences and flowers
The inflorescence is simple or has three to five branches. The rather dense, cylindrical-conical grapes are 12 to 26 centimeters long. The triangular-pointed bracts have a length of 3 to 4 millimeters. The purple to scarlet, green tipped flowers are on 5 to 10 millimeter long peduncles . They are 26 to 30 millimeters long and rounded at their base. Above the ovary , the flowers are very slightly narrowed and finally slightly expanded towards the mouth. Your outer tepals are not fused together over a length of 5 to 6 millimeters. The stamens and the stylus barely protrude from the flower.
fruit
The fruits are spherical berries .
Systematics and distribution
Aloe occidentalis is widespread in the west of Madagascar on sand, limestone or basalt rocks in deciduous dry forest, mostly in the shade.
The first description as Lomatophyllum occidentale by Henri Perrier de La Bâthie was published in 1926. Leonard Eric Newton and Gordon Douglas Rowley put the species in 1996 in the genus Aloe .
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. 294 .
- Leonard Eric Newton: Aloe occidentalis . In: Urs Eggli (Hrsg.): Succulent lexicon. Monocotyledons . Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-8001-3662-7 , pp. 164 .
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. 97.
- ^ H. Perrier: Les Lomatophyllum et les Aloë de Madagascar . In: Mémoires de la Société Linnéenne de Normandie. Botanique . Volume 1, Number 1, 1926, p. 4.
- ^ GD Rowley: The berries Aloes: Aloe section Lomatophyllum . In: Excelsa . Number 17, 1996, p. 61.