Aloe schomeri

Aloe schomeri
	Aloe schomeri
Systematics
	Monocots
Order :	Asparagales (Asparagales)
Family :	Grass trees (Xanthorrhoeaceae)
Subfamily :	Affodilla family (Asphodeloideae)
Genre :	Aloes ( aloe )
Type :	Aloe schomeri
Scientific name
	Aloe schomeri
	Rough

Aloe schomeri is a species of aloes in the subfamily of the Affodilla family (Asphodeloideae). The specific epithet schomeri honors Menko Schomerus, a mine owner in Ampanihy on Madagascar.

description

Vegetative characteristics

Aloe schomeri grows without a stem or with a very short stem, is simple or sprouting and then forms groups. The approximately 30 lanceolate, narrowed leaves form dense rosettes . The dark green leaf blade is 20 to 30 inches long and 3 to 5 inches wide. The cartilaginous leaf margins are lighter and almost white. The bright, almost white teeth on the leaf margin are 2 millimeters long and 5 to 8 millimeters apart.

Inflorescences and flowers

The inflorescence is usually simple or occasionally consists of one or two branches. It reaches a length of up to 65 centimeters. The dense, almost heady or short cylindrical grapes are 6 to 10 centimeters long and 7 centimeters wide. The bracts have a length of about 9 millimeters and are 5 millimeters wide. The yellow flowers are on 12 millimeter long peduncles . The flowers are 21 millimeters long and rounded at their base. Above the ovary , the flowers are widened to the mouth. Your outer tepals are almost not fused together. The stamens and the style protrude 5 to 8 millimeters from the flower.

Systematics and distribution

Aloe schomeri is common on gneiss rocks in the southeast of Madagascar .

The first description by Werner Rauh was published in 1966.

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. 244 .
Leonard Eric Newton: Aloe schomeri . In: Urs Eggli (Hrsg.): Succulent lexicon. Monocotyledons . Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-8001-3662-7 , pp. 178 .

Individual evidence

↑ Urs Eggli, Leonard E. Newton: Etymological Dictionary of Succulent Plant Names . Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-642-05597-3 , p. 216.
↑ Cacti and other succulents . Volume 17, Number 2, 1966, pp. 22-24.

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[1] Urs Eggli, Leonard E. Newton: Etymological Dictionary of Succulent Plant Names . Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-642-05597-3 , p. 216.

[2] Cacti and other succulents . Volume 17, Number 2, 1966, pp. 22-24.