Aloe purpurea
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Aloe purpurea is a species of aloes in the subfamily of the Affodilla family (Asphodeloideae). The specific epithet purpurea comes from Latin and means 'purple'.
description
Vegetative characteristics
Aloe purpurea grows in a stem-forming manner. The upright trunk reaches a length of up to 3 meters and is 7 to 10 centimeters thick. The 12 to 20 linear-lanceolate to sword-shaped leaves form a dense rosette . The dark green leaf blade is up to 100 centimeters long and 8 to 12 centimeters wide. The red teeth on the red, horny leaf margin are small.
Inflorescences and flowers
The inflorescence has up to ten branches and reaches a length of 50 to 60 centimeters. The cylindrical grapes are 15 to 22 centimeters long. The deltoid bracts are 4 to 5 millimeters long. The yellowish red flowers are on 20 to 33 millimeter long peduncles . They are 32 to 33 millimeters long and are briefly narrowed at their base. Above the ovary , the flowers are slightly narrowed and finally expanded towards the mouth. Your outer tepals are not fused together over a length of 14 to 15 millimeters. The stamens and the stylus do not protrude from the flower.
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Systematics and distribution
Aloe purpurea is common on dry mountain slopes in Mauritius .
The first description by Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck was published in 1783.
Synonyms are Lomatophyllum purpureum (Lam.) T Durand & Schinz (1895), Dracaena marginata Aiton (1789, nom. Illeg. ICBN article 52), Aloe marginata (Aiton) Willd. (1809, nom. Illeg. ICBN -Article 53.1), Aloe marginalis DC. (1800, nom. Illeg. ICBN -Article 52), Dracaena dentata Pers. (1805, nom. Illeg. ICBN article 52), Lomatophyllum borbonicum Willd. (1811, nom. Illeg. ICBN -Article 52.1), Phylloma aloiflorum Ker Gawl. (1813, nom. Illeg. ICBN -Article 52.1), Lomatophyllum aloiflorum (Ker Gawl.) G.Nicholson (1885), Aloe rufocincta Haw. (1819), Phylloma rufocinctum (Haw.) Sweet (1827), Lomatophyllum rufocinctum (Haw.) Salm-Dyck ex Schult. & School f. (1829) and Lomatophyllum marginatum Hoffmanns. (1824, nom. Invalid ICBN -Article 11.4)
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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. 661 .
- Leonard Eric Newton: Aloe purpurea . In: Urs Eggli (Hrsg.): Succulent lexicon. Monocotyledons . Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-8001-3662-7 , pp. 173 .
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. 99.
- ^ Encyclopédie Méthodique: Botanique . Volume 1, Part 1, 1783, p. 85 ( online ).