Aloe pachygaster

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

Aloe pachygaster is a species of the genus Aloes in the subfamily of the Affodilla plants (Asphodeloideae). The specific epithet pachygaster is derived from the Greek words pachys for 'thick' and gaster for 'belly' and refers to the shape of the flowers.

description

Vegetative characteristics

Aloe pachygaster grows (almost) without a trunk and usually forms dense groups consisting of up to 20 rosettes . The lanceolate leaves form a rosette of leaves . The bright gray-green leaf blade is 12 to 16 inches long and 2.5 inches wide. The leaf surface is rough. The initially yellow, later almost black teeth on the leaf margin are 2 millimeters long and 5.5 millimeters apart.

Inflorescences and flowers

The simple inflorescence reaches a length of 90 centimeters. The dense, cylindrical grapes are 35 to 45 centimeters long. The egg-shaped, pointed bracts are 30 millimeters long and 17 to 18 millimeters wide. The bulbous, coral-red flowers are tipped green and stand on 5 to 6 millimeter long peduncles . They are 32 to 34 millimeters long and rounded at their base. Above the ovary , the flowers are expanded in the middle to 12 millimeters and then narrowed towards the mouth. Your outer tepals are not fused together over a length of 14 to 16 millimeters. The stamens protruding 5 to 6 millimeters and the pen protrudes about 8 millimeters from the flower out.

Systematics and distribution

Aloe pachygaster is widespread in Namibia on dolomitic limestone at altitudes of 700 to 1500 meters.

The first description by Moritz Kurt Dinter was published in 1923.

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. 405 .
Leonard Eric Newton: Aloe pachygaster . 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.
^ Repertory Specierum Novarum Regni Vegetabilis . Volume 19, 1923, p. 179.

Web links

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[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] Repertory Specierum Novarum Regni Vegetabilis . Volume 19, 1923, p. 179.