Aloe schilliana
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Aloe schilliana is a species of aloes in the subfamily of the Affodill family (Asphodeloideae). The specific epithet schilliana honors the German botanist Rainer Schill .
description
Vegetative characteristics
Aloe schilliana grows easily and in a stem-forming manner . The prostrate trunk is short. The 12 to 15 lanceolate, narrowed leaves form a loose rosette . The green leaf blade is 45 to 55 inches long and 2.5 to 3.5 inches wide. There are three thorns on the tip of the leaf . The green teeth on the leaf margin are about 1 millimeter long and are crowded.
Inflorescences and flowers
The simple inflorescence reaches a length of 50 to 80 centimeters. In the axillae of the sterile bracts are bulbils formed. The rather dense, cylindrical grapes are about 13 centimeters long. The pointed bracts have a length of 3.5 to 4.5 millimeters. The purple flowers are tipped green and stand on 8 to 10 millimeter long peduncles . They are 30 to 33 millimeters long. At the level of the ovary , the flowers are 6 to 7 millimeters in diameter. Your outer tepals are not fused together over a length of 10 to 11 millimeters.
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Systematics and distribution
Aloe schilliana is common in Madagascar on gneiss at heights of 200 meters.
The first description by Leonard Eric Newton and Gordon Douglas Rowley was published in 1996. A synonym is Lomatophyllum viviparum H.Perrier (1926).
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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. 580 .
- Leonard Eric Newton: Aloe schilliana . In: Urs Eggli (Hrsg.): Succulent lexicon. Monocotyledons . Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-8001-3662-7 , pp. 177-178 .