Aloe pearsonii

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

Aloe pearsonii is a species of aloes in the subfamily of the Affodilla family (Asphodeloideae). The specific epithet pearsonii honors the English botanist Henry Harold Welch Pearson (1870–1916).

description

Vegetative characteristics

Aloe pearsonii grows trunk-forming, is richly branched at the base or above and forms dense bushes with a diameter of up to 2 meters. The upright trunk is up to 200 centimeters long and 1.5 centimeters thick. The ovate-pointed to ovate-lanceolate, bent back to thrown back leaves are scattered along the trunks. The green, indistinctly lined leaf blade is 7 to 9 inches long and 3 to 4 inches wide. When dry, it turns reddish. Only on the upper side of the leaf are there numerous elongated, cloudy white spots that are more or less arranged in transverse bands. The whitish to reddish, stinging teeth on the leaf margin are 1 to 2 millimeters long and 5 millimeters apart.

Inflorescences and flowers

The inflorescence consists of two to three branches and reaches a length of about 40 centimeters. The loose, cylindrical grapes are 9 to 15 inches long and 6 to 7 inches wide. The lanceolate, pointed bracts have a length of 6 to 8 millimeters and are 3 millimeters wide. The yellow or brick-red flowers are on flower stalks about 20 millimeters long . The flowers are 23 millimeters long and narrowed at their base. Above the ovary , the flowers are widened to the mouth. Your tepals are not fused together over a length of 12 to 13 millimeters.

genetics

The number of chromosomes is . ${\ displaystyle 2n = 14}$

Systematics and distribution

Aloe pearsonii is widespread on hot, dry, rocky slopes in southern Namibia and in the South African province of North Cape .

The first description by Selmar Schönland was published in 1911.

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. 534 .
Leonard Eric Newton: Aloe pearsonii . In: Urs Eggli (Hrsg.): Succulent lexicon. Monocotyledons . Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-8001-3662-7 , pp. 167 .

Individual evidence

↑ Urs Eggli, Leonard E. Newton: Etymological Dictionary of Succulent Plant Names . Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-642-05597-3 , p. 180.
^ Record of the Albany Museum . Volume 2, 1911, p. 229.

Web links

Commons : Aloe pearsonii - collection of images, videos and audio files

Aloe pearsonii in the Red List of South African Plants

[1] Urs Eggli, Leonard E. Newton: Etymological Dictionary of Succulent Plant Names . Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-642-05597-3 , p. 180.

[2] Record of the Albany Museum . Volume 2, 1911, p. 229.