Aloe prinslooi

Aloe prinslooi
Systematics
	Monocots
Order :	Asparagales (Asparagales)
Family :	Grass trees (Xanthorrhoeaceae)
Subfamily :	Affodilla family (Asphodeloideae)
Genre :	Aloes ( aloe )
Type :	Aloe prinslooi
Scientific name
	Aloe prinslooi
	I.Verd. & DSHardy

Aloe prinslooi is a species of the genus Aloes in the subfamily of the Affodilla family (Asphodeloideae). The specific epithet prinslooi honors Gerry J. Prinsloo, who discovered the species.

description

Vegetative characteristics

Aloe prinslooi grows without a trunk, is simple or forms small groups. The 16 to 30 lanceolate leaves form a rosette . The green leaf blade is 14 to 20 inches long and 4 to 8 inches wide. It is covered with a few to numerous white spots that sometimes form transverse bands. The spots are denser on the upper side of the leaf. The pricking teeth on the leaf margin are 4 millimeters long and 5 to 7 millimeters apart.

Inflorescences and flowers

The inflorescence has two to four branches and reaches a length of up to 60 centimeters. The dense, head-on-the-face grapes are 6 to 12 inches long and 6 to 7 inches wide. The narrowed bracts have a length of up to 30 millimeters and are 5 millimeters wide. The light whitish-green, light to deep shell- pink flowers are on stalks up to 30 millimeters long . They are about 17 millimeters long and rounded at their base. Above the ovary , the flowers are sometimes slightly narrowed. Your outer tepals are not fused together over a length of 5 to 7 millimeters. The stamens and the stylus barely protrude from the flower.

Systematics and distribution

Aloe prinslooi is widespread in the South African province of KwaZulu-Natal on grassy slopes and in open woodlands at altitudes of 800 to 1500 meters.

The first description by Inez Clare Verdoorn and David Spencer Hardy was published in 1965.

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. 159 .
Leonard Eric Newton: Aloe prinslooi . In: Urs Eggli (Hrsg.): Succulent lexicon. Monocotyledons . Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-8001-3662-7 , pp. 171 .

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.
↑ Flowering Plants of Africa Volume 37, 1965, plate 1453.

Web links

Aloe prinslooi in the Red List of South African Plants

[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] Flowering Plants of Africa Volume 37, 1965, plate 1453.