Aloe pronkii

Aloe pronkii
Systematics
	Monocots
Order :	Asparagales (Asparagales)
Family :	Grass trees (Xanthorrhoeaceae)
Subfamily :	Affodilla family (Asphodeloideae)
Genre :	Aloes ( aloe )
Type :	Aloe pronkii
Scientific name
	Aloe pronkii
	Lavranos , Rakouth & TAMcCoy

Aloe pronkii is a species of aloes in the subfamily of the Affodill family (Asphodeloideae). The specific epithet pronkii honors Olaf Pronk from Madagascar.

description

Vegetative characteristics

Aloe pronkii grows stemless or short underground, is simple or branched occasionally. The approximately 20 upright leaves form a rosette . They are deltoid at their base, then abruptly narrow linear and narrowing to a pointed point. The brownish green, small and densely warty leaf blade is 10 to 14 inches long and 2 to 2.5 inches wide. The stiff, white, deltoid teeth on the leaf margin are 0.5 millimeters long and 1 to 3 millimeters apart.

Inflorescences and flowers

The simple inflorescence reaches a length of up to 15 centimeters. The elongated, conical grapes are loose. The brownish red bracts are 2 to 3 millimeters long. The red, whitish tipped flowers stand on 7 millimeter long, red flower stalks . They are about 14 millimeters long. At the level of the ovary , the flowers have a diameter of 4 millimeters. Your outer tepals are not fused together over a length of 5.5 millimeters. The stamens and the stylus do not protrude from the flower.

Systematics and distribution

Aloe pronkii is widespread in Madagascar on quartzite mountains at altitudes of around 1500 meters. The species is only known from the locality of the type.

The first description by John Jacob Lavranos , Bakolimalala Rakouth and Thomas A. McCoy was published in 2006.

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. 220 .

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.
↑ John J. Lavranos, Bakolimalala Rakouth, Thomas A. McCoy: Aloe pronkii a most remarkable dwarf species from the Malagasy highlands . In: Cactus and Succulent Journal . Volume 78, Number 4, Cactus and Succulent Society of America, 2006, pp. 198-200.

[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] John J. Lavranos, Bakolimalala Rakouth, Thomas A. McCoy: Aloe pronkii a most remarkable dwarf species from the Malagasy highlands . In: Cactus and Succulent Journal . Volume 78, Number 4, Cactus and Succulent Society of America, 2006, pp. 198-200.