Aloe pienaarii

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

Aloe pienaarii is a species of the genus Aloes in the subfamily of the Affodilla plants (Asphodeloideae). The specific epithet pienaarii honors PJ Pineaar, who discovered the species.

description

Vegetative characteristics

Aloe pienaarii grows without a trunk, is solitary or forms small groups. The stiffly upright, lanceolate, pointed leaves form a compact rosette . The dark grayish green, reddish tinged leaf blade is up to 90 centimeters long and 12 to 15 centimeters wide. The piercing, deltoid, brownish-pointed teeth on the leaf margin are 1 to 2 millimeters long and 4 to 6 millimeters apart.

Inflorescences and flowers

The upright inflorescence has four to eight branches and is up to 175 centimeters long. The very dense, narrow cylindrical-pointed grapes are 25 to 50 centimeters long and 7 centimeters wide. The broadly egg-shaped, long pointed bracts have a length of 17 to 22 millimeters and are 12 millimeters wide. The bright scarlet, occasionally tipped yellow flowers stand on peduncles about 20 millimeters long . The flowers are cylindrical-triangular and 30 to 45 millimeters long. At the level of the ovary , they have a diameter of 9 to 10 millimeters. Your outer tepals are not fused together. The stamens and the style stick out about 3 millimeters from the flower.

Systematics and distribution

Aloe pienaarii is common in the south of the South African province of Limpopo , in Swaziland and the southern tip of Mozambique in flat, open places or on rocky slopes of the bushveld at heights of 140 to 1,300 meters.

The first description by Illtyd Buller Pole-Evans was published in 1915.

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. 385 .

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. 98.
^ IB Pole Evans: Descriptions of Some New Aloes from the Transvaal . In: Transactions of the Royal Society of South Africa . Volume 4, number 1, 1915, p. 27 ( DOI: 10.1080 / 00359191509519712I ).

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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. 98.

[2] IB Pole Evans: Descriptions of Some New Aloes from the Transvaal . In: Transactions of the Royal Society of South Africa . Volume 4, number 1, 1915, p. 27 ( DOI: 10.1080 / 00359191509519712I ).