Aloe orientalis

Aloe orientalis
Systematics
	Monocots
Order :	Asparagales (Asparagales)
Family :	Grass trees (Xanthorrhoeaceae)
Subfamily :	Affodilla family (Asphodeloideae)
Genre :	Aloes ( aloe )
Type :	Aloe orientalis
Scientific name
	Aloe orientalis
	( H.Perrier ) LENewton & GDRowley

Aloe orientalis is a species of aloes in the subfamily of the Affodill family (Asphodeloideae). The specific epithet orientalis comes from Latin , means 'east' and refers to the distribution area in the east of Madagascar.

description

Vegetative characteristics

Aloe orientalis grows without a trunk, sprouts and forms groups. The 20 to 25 lanceolate, narrowed leaves form a dense rosette . The greyish green 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.

Inflorescences and flowers

The inflorescence has two to three branches and reaches a length of 40 to 50 centimeters. The rather dense, cylindrical-conical grapes are 12 to 26 centimeters long. The pointed bracts have a length of up to 3 millimeters. The light red flowers are on 22 to 24 millimeter long peduncles . They are 22 to 24 millimeters long. 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 11 to 12 millimeters. The stamens and the stylus do not protrude from the flower.

fruit

The fruits are yellow, almost spherical berries 18 millimeters long and 16 millimeters wide.

Systematics and distribution

Aloe orientalis is common in the east of Madagascar on sand dunes by the sea.

The first description as Lomatophyllum orientale 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. 295 .
Leonard Eric Newton: Aloe orientalis . In: Urs Eggli (Hrsg.): Succulent lexicon. Monocotyledons . Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-8001-3662-7 , pp. 165 .

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. 6.
^ GD Rowley: The berries Aloes: Aloe section Lomatophyllum . In: Excelsa . Number 17, 1996, p. 61.

[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. 97.

[2] H. Perrier: Les Lomatophyllum et les Aloë de Madagascar . In: Mémoires de la Société Linnéenne de Normandie. Botanique . Volume 1, Number 1, 1926, p. 6.

[3] GD Rowley: The berries Aloes: Aloe section Lomatophyllum . In: Excelsa . Number 17, 1996, p. 61.