Aloe pluridens

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

Aloe pluridens is a species of the genus aloes in the subfamily of the Affodilla plants (Asphodeloideae). The specific epithet pluridens is derived from the Latin words pluri for 'much' and dens for 'tooth' and refers to the numerous teeth on the leaves of the species.

description

Vegetative characteristics

Aloe pluridens grows trunk-forming and branching. The upright trunk reaches a length of up to 5 meters. The 30 to 40 lanceolate-sickle-shaped leaves form dense rosettes . The light green to yellowish green, indistinctly lined leaf blade is 60 to 70 centimeters long and 5 to 6 centimeters wide. The white or light pink teeth on the narrow, white, cartilaginous leaf margin are 2 to 3 millimeters long and 5 to 10 millimeters apart.

Inflorescences and flowers

The inflorescence consists of up to four branches and reaches a length of 80 to 100 centimeters. The dense, conical grapes are 25 to 30 inches long and 9 to 10 inches wide. The white, egg-shaped-pointed bracts have a length of about 20 millimeters and are 10 to 12 millimeters wide. The salmon pink to cloudy scarlet red flowers are on 30 to 35 millimeter long peduncles . The flowers are 40 to 45 millimeters long and rounded at their base. Above the ovary , the flowers are slightly narrowed and then widen towards the mouth. Your outer tepals are not fused together. The stamens and the pen stand out 3 to 5 millimeters from the flower.

genetics

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

Systematics and distribution

Aloe pluridens is widespread in the South African provinces of Eastern Cape and KwaZulu-Natal in bushes on mountain slopes at heights of up to 500 meters.

The first description by Adrian Hardy Haworth was published in 1824.

The following taxa were included in the species as synonyms : Aloe atherstonei Baker (1880) and Aloe pluridens var. Beckeri Schönland (1903).

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. 684 .
Leonard Eric Newton: Aloe pluridens . In: Urs Eggli (Hrsg.): Succulent lexicon. Monocotyledons . Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-8001-3662-7 , pp. 170 .

Individual evidence

↑ Urs Eggli, Leonard E. Newton: Etymological Dictionary of Succulent Plant Names . Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-642-05597-3 , p. 187.
^ Adrian Hardy Haworth: Decas secunda novarum Plantarum Succulentarum . In: Philosophical Magazine . Volume 64, 1824, p. 299 ( online ).

Web links

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

Aloe pluridens on 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. 187.

[2] Adrian Hardy Haworth: Decas secunda novarum Plantarum Succulentarum . In: Philosophical Magazine . Volume 64, 1824, p. 299 ( online ).