Aloe prostrata
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Aloe prostrata is a species of aloes in the subfamily of the Affodilla family (Asphodeloideae). The specific epithet prostrata comes from Latin and means 'lying down'.
description
Vegetative characteristics
Aloe prostrata grows without a trunk, is solitary or forms small clusters. The 10 to 25 spread, linear-narrowed leaves form dense rosettes . The very dark green to brownish leaf blade is 15 to 20 centimeters long and 1.5 to 2 centimeters wide. There are numerous confluent whitish to greenish spots and lines on it. The white teeth on the leaf margin are 1 to 3 millimeters long and 3 to 15 millimeters apart. The leaf sap is yellow.
Inflorescences and flowers
The simple inflorescence reaches a length of 12 to 17 centimeters. The loose, cylindrical grapes are 2 to 8 centimeters long and consist of a few flowers. Occasionally one or two bulbils are formed. The bracts have a length of 5 to 11 millimeters. The cylindrical-triangular, bright carmine-red, green-tipped flowers are on 3 to 10 millimeter long peduncles . The flowers are 20 to 27 millimeters long and truncated at their base. At the level of the ovary , the flowers are 6 to 9 millimeters in diameter. Above that, they are narrowed to 5 millimeters and then expanded to 6 to 7 millimeters towards the mouth. Your outer tepals are not fused together over a length of 5 to 8 millimeters. The stamens and the stylus barely protrude from the flower.
fruit
Systematics and distribution
Aloe prostrata is common in Madagascar in the Ankarana area in the shade on eroded limestone rock slopes.
The first description as Lomatophyllum prostratum by Henri Perrier de La Bâthie was published in 1926. Leonard Eric Newton and Gordon Douglas Rowley put the species in 1996 in the genus Aloe .
Synonyms are Lomatophyllum propaguliferum Rauh & Razaf. (1998), Aloe propagulifera (Rauh & Razaf.) LENewton & GDRowley (1998), Aloe zombitsiensis Rauh & M. Teissier (2000) and Aloe ankaranensis Rauh & Mangelsdorff (2000).
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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. 233 .
- Leonard Eric Newton: Aloe prostrata . In: Urs Eggli (Hrsg.): Succulent lexicon. Monocotyledons . Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-8001-3662-7 , pp. 172 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Urs Eggli, Leonard E. Newton: Etymological Dictionary of Succulent Plant Names . Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-642-05597-3 , p. 192.
- ^ H. Perrier: Les Lomatophyllum et les Aloë de Madagascar . In: Mémoires de la Société Linnéenne de Normandie. Botanique . Volume 1, Number 1, 1926, p. 9.
- ^ Gordon D. Rowley: The berries Aloes: Aloe section Lomatophyllum . In: Excelsa . Number 17, 1996, p. 61.
- ↑ Werner Rauh, Marc Teissier: Aloe zombitsiensis Rauh & Teissier spec. nov. (Aloaceae) . In: Cacti and other succulents . Volume 51, Number 8, 2000, pp. 201-203.
- ↑ Werner Rauh, Ralph D. Mangelsdorff: Aloe ankaranensis Rauh & Mangelsdorff spec. nov. (Aloaceae) . In: Cacti and other succulents . Volume 51, Number 10, 2000, pp. 273-275.