Aloe ortholopha
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Aloe ortholopha is a species of aloes in the subfamily of the Affodilla family (Asphodeloideae). The specific epithet ortholopha is derived from the Greek words orthos for 'upright' and lophos for 'comb' and refers to the one-sided flowers of the species.
description
Vegetative characteristics
Aloe ortholopha grows easily and without trunk. The 30 or more lanceolate leaves form a dense rosette . The cloudy, gray-greenish, pinkish leaf blade is up to 50 centimeters long and 12 to 14 centimeters wide. The piercing teeth on the pinkish to reddish brown leaf margin are up to 4 millimeters long and 4 to 20 millimeters apart.
Inflorescences and flowers
The inflorescence has two to three (rarely up to five) branches and reaches a length of 80 to 90 centimeters. The very dense, almost horizontal grapes are 30 centimeters long and consist of single-sided flowers. The lanceolate, narrowed bracts have a length of 10 to 15 millimeters and are 5 millimeters wide. The bulbous, orange-red to blood-red flowers are on approximately 8 millimeter long peduncles . They are 40 millimeters long and rounded at their base. At the level of the ovary , the flowers are 6 to 7 millimeters in diameter. Above that, they are expanded to 10 to 11 millimeters in the middle and finally narrowed to 6 to 7 millimeters at the mouth. Your outer tepals are not fused together over a length of 30 millimeters. The stamens and the pen stand 12 to 16 millimeters out of flowering.
Systematics and distribution
Aloe ortholopha is common in Zimbabwe on serpentine soils in the grasslands on rocky slopes at altitudes of 1430 to 1525 meters.
The first description by Hugh Basil Christian and Edgar Wolston Bertram Handsley Milne-Redhead was published in 1933.
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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. 282 .
- Leonard Eric Newton: Aloe ortholopha . 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.
- ^ Bulletin of Miscellaneous Information . Kew 1933. p. 478.
